On 02/10/18 17:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 06:16:32PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Boaz, the most recent osd patch that is neither trivial nor treewide
>> refactoring is six years old (51976a8c85ce ("[SCSI] osd_uld: Add osdname &
>> systemid sysfs at scsi_osd class"). That suggests that nobody is using this
>> driver anymore. Can this driver be removed from the kernel tree?
>
> Last time we tried to exofs and the osd code Boaz complained loudly,
> but as far as I can tell it really is not used and bitrotting, so we
> should finally go ahead and drop it.
>
As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments.
Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports.
But yes feel free to remove the all thing!!
I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree.
Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys
been doing this for me ;-)
Thanks, sorry for the hassle
Boaz
