From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md/md-multipath: Convert "struct mpconf" to flexible array
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:46:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZXfzqsstA6tTPpF8@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPhsuW5F1aRrCRW-ad5Sq=cgxHX+QgXgYZyMX17Zj4Mj=Jnhjw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 10:11:10AM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> We marked it as deprecated about 2.5 years ago. But to be honest,
> I currently don't have a plan to remove it. I guess I should start thinking
> about it.
Let's just kill it off ASAP. It never had a large user base and based
by dm-multipath not long after it has been added. It also doesn't
support any uniqueue hardware and has no on-disk format.
If you want any blame deflected from you I'd be happy to send the patch
to remove it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-12 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-03 19:48 [PATCH] md/md-multipath: Convert "struct mpconf" to flexible array Christophe JAILLET
2023-12-04 22:20 ` Kees Cook
2023-12-08 5:33 ` Song Liu
2023-12-08 17:27 ` Kees Cook
2023-12-08 18:11 ` Song Liu
2023-12-12 5:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-12-12 7:46 ` Song Liu
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