Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:11:45 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: ooo@electrozaur.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
        trond.myklebust@primarydata.com, 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
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On Wed, Apr 12 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
> 
> These patches are against Jens' block for-next tree as that already

I've added 1/4 for now, as that one should obviously go. If we have
consensus to kill the rest, I'm all for it.

-- 
Jens Axboe