From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527CCC43143 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2018 14:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16BAD20666 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2018 14:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="ddGi4l5c" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 16BAD20666 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728823AbeJBVkF (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2018 17:40:05 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:57022 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726906AbeJBVkF (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2018 17:40:05 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=Si4c1CMudt/+BoxUKrnvH/SoFDhoc2Bv7Mr/78nmwno=; b=ddGi4l5c+R8gIpoB683dObJnD kpr9bjKrQnPL5YrIQB4KS8Ft9nfNlRXBBw99vL0/IMhQ2aPVP01Ja3nDGN7B/2txfYUmwx4791rbz +o0W4fKy0/DoMJZBVVDOBjaodMjpgmxpVnnY3JtsVTKuAoHmEQp5tum0X48UHBXUIe37gEwBfM5pV v5qvzGUJd5el/oxcPOswbpV/XmdYYP1PQ4MMDROJu23tuQKvr9LUl+MvY0w13Ham29lOloAfxdy93 lCxBbclOsH4F+Bfy/9EhOYbN/0aHKKKI/3egSz9xf9YG9y26Ro3Kk03xB+fVjR13thby3D/4wNJDq BYAj97yRQ==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1g7M5t-0005AU-LK; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 14:56:13 +0000 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 07:56:13 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Nathan Chancellor , Boaz Harrosh , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Desaulniers Subject: Re: [PATCH] libosd: Remove ignored __weak attribute Message-ID: <20181002145613.GA11156@infradead.org> References: <20180930205448.26205-1-natechancellor@gmail.com> <10b12992-3570-4646-374b-82cbd7276839@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10b12992-3570-4646-374b-82cbd7276839@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 06:16:32PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Boaz, the most recent osd patch that is neither trivial nor treewide > refactoring is six years old (51976a8c85ce ("[SCSI] osd_uld: Add osdname & > systemid sysfs at scsi_osd class"). That suggests that nobody is using this > driver anymore. Can this driver be removed from the kernel tree? Last time we tried to exofs and the osd code Boaz complained loudly, but as far as I can tell it really is not used and bitrotting, so we should finally go ahead and drop it.