From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH] blktap2: update connection handling to fix build with gcc5 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:44:47 +0100 Message-ID: <55AE148F.60101@citrix.com> References: <1437298408-23414-1-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <55ACD6CC0200007800092F33@mail.emea.novell.com> <20150720091634.GA4320@aepfle.de> <20150720094537.GZ12455@zion.uk.xensource.com> <20150721063251.GA29487@aepfle.de> <55AE07CA0200007800093792@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <1437467895.17368.78.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1437467895.17368.78.camel@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell , Jan Beulich Cc: Ian Jackson , Olaf Hering , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Wei Liu , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 07/21/2015 09:38 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > 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. Yes -- in fact, there have already been checked in block scripts which allow one to use the out-of-tree blktap. There are still some changes to the XenServer blktap to allow it to be built out-of-tree -- let me know if you want those. (I'll try to upstream them before I re-submit the blktap2 removal patches.) -George