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From: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libosd: Remove ignored __weak attribute
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 19:59:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4ace065-fb9c-6901-d4d9-6b849e08d054@electrozaur.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181002145613.GA11156@infradead.org>

On 02/10/18 17:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 06:16:32PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Boaz, the most recent osd patch that is neither trivial nor treewide
>> refactoring is six years old (51976a8c85ce ("[SCSI] osd_uld: Add osdname &
>> systemid sysfs at scsi_osd class"). That suggests that nobody is using this
>> driver anymore. Can this driver be removed from the kernel tree?
> 
> Last time we tried to exofs and the osd code Boaz complained loudly,
> but as far as I can tell it really is not used and bitrotting, so we
> should finally go ahead and drop it.
> 

As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments.
Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports.

But yes feel free to remove the all thing!!

I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree.

Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys
been doing this for me ;-)

Thanks, sorry for the hassle
Boaz


  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-02 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-30 20:54 Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-01 22:47 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-02  1:16 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-10-02  6:55   ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-02 14:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-02 16:59     ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2018-10-02 17:24   ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-02 17:57     ` Bart Van Assche
2018-10-02 22:33       ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-02 23:06         ` Bart Van Assche
2018-10-25 21:31           ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-25 22:02             ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-25 22:55               ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-26 17:54                 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-26 18:01                   ` Bart Van Assche
2018-10-26 18:05                     ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-26 18:31                       ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-26 19:22                         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-10-26 20:05                           ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-26 20:42                             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-10-26 21:02                               ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-26 21:00                     ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-26 21:30                       ` Bart Van Assche
2018-10-26 21:36                         ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-26 21:59                           ` Bart Van Assche
2018-10-26 22:07                             ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-26 22:24                               ` Bart Van Assche
2018-10-27 13:28                                 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-10-28 15:44                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-01  1:05                                   ` Boaz Harrosh
2018-10-27  3:35                               ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-10-27  6:15                                 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-10-27  6:25                                   ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-11-01  1:15                   ` Boaz Harrosh
2018-11-01  1:39             ` Boaz Harrosh
2018-11-01  1:44               ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-01-26  6:47 ` [PATCH RESEND] " Nathan Chancellor

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