netdev - Re: Regarding UDP-Lite deprecation and removal

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:43:12 +0300
From: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@...e.de>
To: Lynne <dev@...ne.ee>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Kuniyu <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
 Willemdebruijn Kernel <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Regarding UDP-Lite deprecation and removal



On 3/21/24 11:29, Lynne wrote:
> Mar 17, 2024, 01:34 by dev@...ne.ee:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> UDP-Lite was scheduled to be removed in 2025 in commit
>> be28c14ac8bbe1ff due to a lack of real-world users, and
>> a long-outstanding security bug being left undiscovered.
>>
>> I would like to open a discussion to perhaps either avoid this,
>> or delay it, conditionally.
>>
> 
> Ping. To be clear, I am offering to maintain it if the current
> maintainers do not have time to.
> 
> Should I send a patch to remove the warning? I wanted to
> know the opinions of the ones who maintain/deprecated
> the code first.Otherwise it doesn't make sense to maintain it if it's going to be deleted :)
BTW if yo have a list of tests to implement please share to avoid stepping on toes 

>