From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72495130AF6 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:38:06 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1723264686; cv=none; b=LLLimCfn6/8apg0CWKbFGusMY7xbQ6QfvtEUZKWedGUG945FWzGUTHCqm9Bx1cJ6E5/bVnKS+c+EBnTE6Li3M6XhhJcmup3mHJeFkM8GREcDlm4NHMqWtaubja4Rs6ApowqgK76ooUuRQg5dp2iwV9tGhrIL2Lp/SUK0rB9eoeQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1723264686; c=relaxed/simple; bh=BEz4De9B4leKO/E2Zt0KzPwOhwRIoy9KxoMphqOQ2Ns=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=teFT1I9UP54KGnS1YfNX6cvK44h76CD0ONEkBWNGRpJQTZjcweFM5d2SpnYjHnK7q4pWPY5uQ0q5wJjHZ9nX5Nudd5X4TxpKfZIhZHOV+cPONm3DDerPgswEaL+DOeR4gCp2fiszPFqaXWGdOujwYBX0k3gyHX4v85qNcwLL/+c= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=XsMmd9zd; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="XsMmd9zd" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AA8C9C32781; Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:38:05 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1723264686; bh=BEz4De9B4leKO/E2Zt0KzPwOhwRIoy9KxoMphqOQ2Ns=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=XsMmd9zdBefZt4UxxSQFivTPTmMXHR3Kra2BspUaff+X0DkgYl39TA3IL2V1ept/r CxTVPnlTvJiNSy9ovp56YvPExqLL23/TAVFsdFLzb0fw2A+CrSoFT3BqpYucbEdC5K tw5SX3sibcvDmT9pODpwBELmuSAgqxcYq3t4J8gfwji/0m3lM/MZJt8JAcVD0zo6fn cfEkK0uim81eob86iRXGNNk3NOMoe2K0aaEVJZIc1Ep3sflQfKh+9YlyBT325LFS6+ 1UCD1IG7tYvgxTm3LCecH398T+zHTQG0AFCs/GHzQv2mRN/WUPRotYXbYBJx++WtQ/ yjsYevRmlm8nQ== Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 21:38:04 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Dmitry Antipov Cc: Paolo Abeni , netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvc-project@linuxtesting.org, Tom Herbert , Willem de Bruijn Subject: Re: On KCM maintenance Message-ID: <20240809213804.7fa79cf1@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 08:13:11 +0300 Dmitry Antipov wrote: > Recently I've posted a tiny pretend-to-be-a-fix for KCM sockets, see > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240801130833.680962-1-dmantipov@yandex.ru/T/#u, > and now I have a question about the subsystem's maintenance status. Since net/kcm > is not even listed in MAINTAINERS, it would be interesting to know whether the > subsystem in subject is actually alive and worth any further development efforts. Maybe float a patch to delete it, and let's see if anyone screams? The concept KCM implements is really nice, but the lack of bug reports also has been making me wonder if its in use.