From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] libosd: Remove ignored __weak attribute Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 07:56:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20181002145613.GA11156@infradead.org> References: <20180930205448.26205-1-natechancellor@gmail.com> <10b12992-3570-4646-374b-82cbd7276839@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10b12992-3570-4646-374b-82cbd7276839@acm.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Nathan Chancellor , Boaz Harrosh , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Desaulniers List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 06:16:32PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Boaz, the most recent osd patch that is neither trivial nor treewide > refactoring is six years old (51976a8c85ce ("[SCSI] osd_uld: Add osdname & > systemid sysfs at scsi_osd class"). That suggests that nobody is using this > driver anymore. Can this driver be removed from the kernel tree? Last time we tried to exofs and the osd code Boaz complained loudly, but as far as I can tell it really is not used and bitrotting, so we should finally go ahead and drop it.