Re: [PATCH rdma-core] Remove the obsolete libibcm library

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 01:19:45PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 02:31:32PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
> >
> > The libibcm library was marked as obsolete long time ago,
> > the following patch is first step before removing ucm from
> > the kernel.
>
> I understand the distros will not want to loose libibcm in their
> stable releases.
>
> It might make more sense instead to just not build libibcm by default
> with a cmake option but still keep the sources..

We are not removing it from the stable branches, so if they want to keep it
till last person who used this library dies, they are free to do it.

The disabled build doesn't give much benefit at all. It will be dead code exactly
as now, but without any alert that it is broken. Most possible, it will be broken
till some distro will notice it.

Exactly as some distros have EOL, this libibcm library came to its EOL.

Thanks

>
> Jason

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