On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:18:59AM -0500, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > 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, Where did you see me saying that it is broken? I said that it WILL be broken if we don't compile it by default. Thanks > > -- Hal > > > Exactly as some distros have EOL, this libibcm library came to its EOL. > > > > Thanks > > > >> > >> Jason
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