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=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS 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 40A3EC43143 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2018 16:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6B42089C for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2018 16:59:13 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org EC6B42089C Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=electrozaur.com 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 S1727482AbeJBXnc (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2018 19:43:32 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-f66.google.com ([209.85.221.66]:44484 "EHLO mail-wr1-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726525AbeJBXnc (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2018 19:43:32 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-f66.google.com with SMTP id 63-v6so3038739wra.11; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 09:59:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KInkuaBmL/vfDg0sGvxHoaX45Gr4AZ5I1Yff1MgQS9Q=; b=KXaeCPdT8NqbpVpJ3AiOt1u8QcnwoUFLlfawD75p5f/OWWEu13bgNBL/KUAtACo/5n gRWWceajISH09UtnR1uZwkxiGaa82dSXnDb+tuSqHr85iB5VdX3iL8vmZPAwBlHozIqq nrKc3xdxToe7UHJ6C1vR/+yopBhNWdTeuMtp9AFWrX22qMDucZdg8GbRwNMf/UkWXldZ 0rDe4e+2Dix4O11BJnyqmYh+4o12GcuCpIlMKc7xOwfchHYeiCQVPRxYhfJUQyYuXTBS 1bJ/t+y59YOG6ZFTuleXAok/ZQQ1w4CdDQKystqhFQjNjdjW++XFEhCgleNSW2G0wunC tGNw== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfojd7Grd7DrRATmepxOVdBtefBAF5YCetXRtf+HrLqd+XBgSSpyN geL9kezM5q4a8qz03Rh3wmc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV61csmEDz0MYDYuayPuDw1fwzqQ1Zp6SLsspd+40CLbbfU0xw8y7p6hWQd20Gz9Naxa8UNUcsA== X-Received: by 2002:a5d:618f:: with SMTP id j15-v6mr8836429wru.198.1538499550329; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 09:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.5] ([207.232.55.62]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w4-v6sm15447423wra.83.2018.10.02.09.59.08 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 02 Oct 2018 09:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] libosd: Remove ignored __weak attribute To: Christoph Hellwig , Bart Van Assche References: <20180930205448.26205-1-natechancellor@gmail.com> <10b12992-3570-4646-374b-82cbd7276839@acm.org> <20181002145613.GA11156@infradead.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Desaulniers From: Boaz Harrosh Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 19:59:08 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181002145613.GA11156@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/10/18 17:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. > As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments. Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports. But yes feel free to remove the all thing!! I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree. Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys been doing this for me ;-) Thanks, sorry for the hassle Boaz