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From:   Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:46:39 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] md/md-multipath: Convert "struct mpconf" to flexible array
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
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Hi Christoph,

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 9:46=E2=80=AFPM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.or=
g> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 10:11:10AM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> > We marked it as deprecated about 2.5 years ago. But to be honest,
> > I currently don't have a plan to remove it. I guess I should start thin=
king
> > about it.
>
> Let's just kill it off ASAP.  It never had a large user base and based
> by dm-multipath not long after it has been added.  It also doesn't
> support any uniqueue hardware and has no on-disk format.

Thanks for the suggestion.

> If you want any blame deflected from you I'd be happy to send the patch
> to remove it.

Let me give it a try. I am kinda curious what gonna happen. :)

Thanks,
Song