Re: [PATCH] hw/rdma: Deprecate the pvrdma device and the rdma subsystem

[Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> This subsystem is said to be in a bad shape (see e.g. [1], [2]
> and [3]), and nobody seems to feel responsible to pick up patches
> for this and send them via a pull request. For example there is
> a patch for a CVE-worthy bug posted more than half a year ago [4]
> which has never been merged.
>
> Quoting Markus: "Given the shape it is in, I wouldn't let friends
> use it in production" - we shouldn't expose this to our users in
> the current state. Thus let's mark it as deprecated and finally
> remove it unless somebody steps up and improves the code quality
> and adds proper regression tests.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230918144206.560120-1-armbru@redhat.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/ZQnojJOqoFu73995@redhat.com/
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1054981c-e8ae-c676-3b04-eeb030e11f65@tls.msk.ru/
> [4] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230301142926.18686-1-yuval.shaia.ml@gmail.com/
> [5] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/8734z9f086.fsf@pond.sub.org/
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>