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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:47:59 -0500
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Christoph,

> The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout
> driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we
> removed it 1.5 years ago.  Exofs is just a simple example without real
> life users.
>
> The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the
> way of block / SCSI changes, and does not even work properly currently,
> so I think it's finally time to drop it.

Applied to 5.1/scsi-queue. Thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering