From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-core] Remove the obsolete libibcm library Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:26:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20180102142658.GF10145@mtr-leonro.local> References: <20171225123132.6063-1-leon@kernel.org> <20171227201945.GG25436@ziepe.ca> <20171228053029.GO3494@mtr-leonro.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Oiv9uiLrevHtW1RS" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Hal Rosenstock Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , Doug Ledford , Sean Hefty , Hal Rosenstock , RDMA mailing list List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --Oiv9uiLrevHtW1RS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:18:59AM -0500, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On 12/28/2017 12:30 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > 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 > >>> > >>> 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. > > Since when has it been brken and how is it broken ? Last I knew it > worked but was not used by anything in tree. Hal, Where did you see me saying that it is broken? I said that it WILL be broken if we don't compile it by default. Thanks > > -- Hal > > > Exactly as some distros have EOL, this libibcm library came to its EOL. > > > > Thanks > > > >> > >> Jason --Oiv9uiLrevHtW1RS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAlpLlrIACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKdUlxAAngIetE6egEjr2+SOae1aLHO9G56rlhcptosJSpe9seRW+vsmbC2az54/ icKDkaq+kI0yi1aNZjM8tCtSgvd5FGane2ZH6NWc+MqQ8P3xkZn/LmovcXoWXGae t5KOKts512ko+a/wQSCVnLfXYAbXup6e58i/nX6p7PT/PaxmWSSNUY1E1SgRws3v NgoR15ub4dU+vbTc1yHLQr7hRzDclhsBM3ajS9ZO5xFx5uoU8mVZwTcCWgBdGiIQ 7RvBppLgN5UTvAhKQdEr0ch1Qkka/A9g5jTKeUKWjFkFUvxcwxOI165s2/rk0K46 OoHqKuF7eX6pGoF1D8bhM/VhoACVh9T7vNOqLfcJ7TKRNxcYduWMgvmUwLNKoq/4 nvHfgGsgEQtEvNX2cQpWEPkEZ/uXIsqBI/aBPnWuiffaSM3VeOEU2RdMDMS4avsS GaaSA3ZP/x2U8M5acOtz0kWg+Xpo1In27fwbT7ffcvVG8r9oO05YrMG2zRrvWXcm LcUpDKEJ2/Gb/nPUSMp8DDWBdYbn5HgStTMQSXwU48HEZKyIy3HYdX2S0qP8uoEj l7XBKyLBpldX5TyhLE9fS0wfGPMw3/cQt0Qc5A4cOJNtCkoDb+F0ZcbM6Mn0oJYm QPeVHcZvZgrLB0sWONcAdP3m5fSEmzIjJ81cNNXMmadM35yL7EM= =RXX8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Oiv9uiLrevHtW1RS-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html