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To: =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=c3=a9_Lureau?= , QEMU , ashmit602@gmail.com References: From: Thomas Huth Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <2666aec2-9872-6af6-7705-d7ce553f611c@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:20:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.23 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.139.110.61; envelope-from=thuth@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/09 10:34:01 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -40 X-Spam_score: -4.1 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-1, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Kevin Wolf , Jeff Cody , Max Reitz Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 09/07/2020 17.10, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi, > > VXHS block device was added ~3y ago in commit da92c3ff60b (block/vxhs.c: > Add support for a new block device type called "vxhs"), but it doesn't > compile anymore, at least since v5.0 (I haven't checked earlier). > > The upstream repository (https://github.com/VeritasHyperScale/libqnio) > hasn't received any update since then. > > What should we do about it? IMHO: Mark it as deprecated in docs/system/deprecated.rst, then remove it in two releases if nobody shows up to maintain it. Thomas