On 12/28/2017 12:30 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 01:19:45PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 02:31:32PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: >>> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> The libibcm library was marked as obsolete long time ago, >>> the following patch is first step before removing ucm from >>> the kernel. >> >> I understand the distros will not want to loose libibcm in their >> stable releases. >> >> It might make more sense instead to just not build libibcm by default >> with a cmake option but still keep the sources.. > > We are not removing it from the stable branches, so if they want to keep it > till last person who used this library dies, they are free to do it. > > The disabled build doesn't give much benefit at all. It will be dead code exactly > as now, but without any alert that it is broken. Most possible, it will be broken > till some distro will notice it. Since when has it been brken and how is it broken ? Last I knew it worked but was not used by anything in tree. -- Hal > Exactly as some distros have EOL, this libibcm library came to its EOL. > > Thanks > >> >> Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
