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Subject: Re: [PATCH] blktap2: update connection handling to fix
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:38:15 +0100
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On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 00:50 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:

> > What is the longterm goal of that binary?
> 
> It being mostly unmaintained, it's probably a candidate for removal
> not too far in the future.

George already posted a series to remove the in tree copy and treat
blktap2 as an out of tree project[0]. That series isn't going to hit
4.6, obviously, but I'd expect/hope it to go in during 4.7.

Ian.

[0] upstream is the xenserver.org fork IIRC.