netdev - Re: [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: delete not-used XFRM_OFFLOAD

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Date:   Tue, 1 Feb 2022 09:53:08 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: delete not-used XFRM_OFFLOAD_IPV6 define

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 09:22:17AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 07:58:36AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 08:24:58PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
> > > 
> > > XFRM_OFFLOAD_IPV6 define was exposed in the commit mentioned in the
> > > fixes line, but it is never been used both in the kernel and in the
> > > user space. So delete it.
> > 
> > How can you be sure that is is not used in userspace? At least some
> > versions of strongswan set that flag. So even if it is meaningless
> > in the kernel, we can't remove it.
> 
> I looked over all net/* and include/uapi/* code with "git log -p" and didn't
> see any use of this flag ever. 

And in my search on github, I didn't see anyone except strongswan who
used this flag.

Thanks