From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>,
"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
"Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
"Eduard Zingerman" <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
"Song Liu" <song@kernel.org>,
"Yonghong Song" <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
"John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
"KP Singh" <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
"Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@fomichev.me>,
"Hao Luo" <haoluo@google.com>, "Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] umd: Remove usermode driver framework
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:33:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250722063328.GA15403@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADnVQ+Mw=bG-HZ5KMMDWzr_JqcCwWNQNf-JRvRsTLZ6P7-tUw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 08:51:22AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM Thomas Weißschuh
> <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > The code is unused since commit 98e20e5e13d2 ("bpfilter: remove bpfilter"),
> > remove it.
>
> Correct, but we have plans to use it.
> Since it's not causing any problems we prefer to keep it
> to avoid reverting the removal later.
Plans to eventually use something are no reason to keep code that's been
unused for almost 2 years around. Unless the removal would conflict with
currently queued up in linux-next code it is always better to just drop
it and reinstate it when (or rather usually IFF) it is used again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-22 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-21 9:04 [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] umd: Remove usermode driver framework Thomas Weißschuh
2025-07-21 9:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf/preload: Don't select USERMODE_DRIVER Thomas Weißschuh
2025-07-22 6:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-21 9:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] umd: Remove usermode driver framework Thomas Weißschuh
2025-07-21 15:51 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-07-22 6:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-07-22 23:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2025-07-22 6:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-23 7:01 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2025-07-24 7:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-24 8:38 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2025-07-29 7:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-23 11:49 ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-23 16:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-07-31 10:22 ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-26 19:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] " patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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