ipx: move Novell IPX protocol support into staging

The Netware IPX protocol is very old and no one should still be using
it. It is time to move it into staging for a while and eventually
decommision it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ipx/pe2.c b/drivers/staging/ipx/pe2.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba7d4214bbff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/staging/ipx/pe2.c
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <linux/in.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/netdevice.h>
+#include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+
+#include <net/datalink.h>
+
+static int pEII_request(struct datalink_proto *dl,
+			struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *dest_node)
+{
+	struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
+
+	skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPX);
+	dev_hard_header(skb, dev, ETH_P_IPX, dest_node, NULL, skb->len);
+	return dev_queue_xmit(skb);
+}
+
+struct datalink_proto *make_EII_client(void)
+{
+	struct datalink_proto *proto = kmalloc(sizeof(*proto), GFP_ATOMIC);
+
+	if (proto) {
+		proto->header_length = 0;
+		proto->request = pEII_request;
+	}
+
+	return proto;
+}
+
+void destroy_EII_client(struct datalink_proto *dl)
+{
+	kfree(dl);
+}