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

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Message-ID: <20250731-kavaliersdelikt-geprobt-eb7e802ba673@brauner>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:22:31 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, 
	Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>, 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>, 
	Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, 
	KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>, 
	Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, 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 Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 10:27:42AM -0600, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 08:34:11AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 11:04:42AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > > > The code is unused since commit 98e20e5e13d2 ("bpfilter: remove bpfilter"),
> > >
> > > Overly long commit message here.
> > >
> > > > remove it.
> > >
> > > Otherwise looks good:
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
> 
> Fair enough. Democracy wins.
> Will apply once I'm back from pto.

Fwiw, I honestly don't care that much. I think the removal makes sense
precisely because having unused code is usually not a good idea. If you
really want that infra you can always reintroduce it once someone
actually ends up using it.