Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753054AbdDNC2A (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:28:00 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:18174 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751445AbdDNC16 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:27:58 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: ooo@electrozaur.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, trond.myklebust@primarydata.com, axboe@kernel.dk, osd-dev@open-osd.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <20170412160109.10598-1-hch@lst.de> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:27:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170412160109.10598-1-hch@lst.de> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:01:05 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 454 Lines: 14 Christoph, > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and the > other two users (osdblk and exofs) were simple example of it's usage. > > The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the > way of block / SCSI changes, so I think it's finally time to drop it. No particular objections from me. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering