linux-kernel - Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4

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Message-ID: <yq1wome28wg.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:47:59 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, martin.petersen@...cle.com, ooo@...ctrozaur.com,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Benjamin Block <bblock@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4


Christoph,

> The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout
> driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we
> removed it 1.5 years ago.  Exofs is just a simple example without real
> life users.
>
> The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the
> way of block / SCSI changes, and does not even work properly currently,
> so I think it's finally time to drop it.

Applied to 5.1/scsi-queue. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering