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Message-ID: <20181026180515.GA12129@flashbox>
Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:05:15 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, ooo@...ctrozaur.com,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libosd: Remove ignored __weak attribute

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:01:48AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 10:54 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > If creating one instance of this variable is a functional change, I
> > can't help but suspect the original code was wrong.  But maybe Bart,
> > Boaz, or Christoph can clarify or have more thoughts on this?  Looks
> > like Boaz added this header in commit de258bf5e638 ("[SCSI] libosd:
> > OSDv1 Headers").
> 
> Hi Nick and Nathan,
> 
> Had you noticed the following e-mail from early October:
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=153849955503249?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.

Hi Bart,

I had but there doesn't seem to be any reply to it so I wasn't sure if
there was a final consensus on removing the driver. If that's the route
that everyone wants to go, then I guess we don't need to continue to
debate this patch.

Thanks for the heads up,
Nathan