From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751839AbdECUOR (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2017 16:14:17 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:57838 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750922AbdECUOL (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2017 16:14:11 -0400 Message-ID: <1493842437.2564.40.camel@decadent.org.uk> Subject: Future of liblockdep From: Ben Hutchings To: Sasha Levin , Ingo Molnar Cc: LKML Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 21:13:57 +0100 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-gIVvHigxW0Hd8FBn5HVr" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-gIVvHigxW0Hd8FBn5HVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable liblockdep hasn't been buildable since (I think) Linux 4.6. I sent Sasha fixes for that last June and he included these in a pull request to Ingo, but somehow they never reached mainline. Linux 4.8 broke liblockdep further, and I gave up packaging it for Debian. There have been no other changes to liblockdep since then, other than a general change in the tools/ directory. Sasha's address in MAINTAINERS is also out-of-date. Please either maintain liblockdep properly or delete it. We shouldn't keep code in the tree in a broken state. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. --=-gIVvHigxW0Hd8FBn5HVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEErCspvTSmr92z9o8157/I7JWGEQkFAlkKOgUACgkQ57/I7JWG EQn3ShAAqUr60HjXqiN4QjYE9FghQOHfjlVSRlIo3yJZ6xdToXeG5WwxxMDVFry3 Td5oK13W0Ldb7h4GB8uop2osvbFzJ6S6TT9ME0pVLgmikID8swjzS3jy1Dr0y45i oS506pX7rQGKzA1VVB8S0so3akFyuRibA2POV5t6Jkgib02TFoyvBpMARY+fxKw3 t4zLFE5x0ijcpTtLffdorv0Ie+vEkVoUCQ3q2Oh7ISROhrRwnzYLZCaWzzmBuFs0 VNNmQ+Dc1eAXaMlVRd4+iLPKoevMtsIp7rBuJWfiYXOyiBIXh/oIFWmBXlD8/zUX 4D4gwxINDneHWYy4E04CDaIDwIjNi19j7YG0lJx+TysUUW/4KC/oStEiBi5pr9UL C9dx34KIZog/+ZyJKcbeeXaay2lanqtq5aePTUmKUvnohR4X64c+mxGqjMtwr54S vbOcDZ0FJLSMnueUaieA+eMR9nCm9tEIUf6i4SGCyUfT1QLj/qjvsOd82UEjpywM khUzIregRNRpi0bdJ17Lm/hYnszTASvCQE3VV1lEnaYMfoNTD6V+en/9UV/cjf27 mVJQWS3I4u8qe9/aWwp0hpHMRAZq6R9I8CowmlieQ8XjFRBYlgJJD3iBLojfQjC5 319+ponLm5LsWDVhqIbYJx4xCEiab8eXsgpjJdD0+noqBqGwPAs= =1SEz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-gIVvHigxW0Hd8FBn5HVr--