On 26.09.2017 12:47, Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:41:41PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> >> >> On 09/26/2017 12:40 PM, Heiko Carstens wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 08:37:36PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>>> >>>> On 09/25/2017 07:54 PM, Halil Pasic wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 09/25/2017 04:45 PM, Thomas Huth wrote: >>>>>> There is no recent user space application available anymore which still >>>>>> supports this old virtio transport, so let's disable this by default. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> >>>>> I don't have any objections, but there may be something I'm not aware of. >>>>> Let's see what Connie says. From my side it's ack. >>>>> >>>>> Via whom is this supposed to go in? Looking at the MAINTAINERS, I would >>>>> say Martin or Heiko but I don't see them among the recipients. >>>> >>>> FWIW as the original author of that transport >>>> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> I can pick this up for Martins/Heikos tree if you want. >>> >>> When will this code be removed? >>> >>> When the config option was initially added Conny said it should survive >>> "probably two kernel releases or so, depending on feedback". >>> It was merged for v4.8. Now we are five kernel releases later... >> >> Lets wait for one release and then get rid of it? > > So it's going to be removed with the next merge window. > Where is the patch? ;) Hmm, so far the code was always enabled by default, so in the unlikely case that somebody is still using it, they might not have noticed that this is marked as deprecated. So maybe it's better to keep the code for two more released, but disable it by default, so that people have time to realize that it is going away? ... just my 0.02 € ... but if you prefer, I can also write a patch that removes it immediately instead. Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
