linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] umd: Remove usermode driver framework

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:51:22 -0700
From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, 
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, 
	Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, 
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	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, 
	Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, 
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] umd: Remove usermode driver framework

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM Thomas Weißschuh
<thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> The code is unused since commit 98e20e5e13d2 ("bpfilter: remove bpfilter"),
> remove it.

Correct, but we have plans to use it.
Since it's not causing any problems we prefer to keep it
to avoid reverting the removal later.