netdev - Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 0/5] Drop Mellanox FPGA TLS support from the kernel

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Date:   Mon, 4 Apr 2022 17:35:00 -0700
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 0/5] Drop Mellanox FPGA TLS support from the
 kernel

On 04 Apr 15:08, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
>
>Mellanox INNOVA TLS cards are EOL in May, 2018 [1]. As such, the code
>is unmaintained, untested and not in-use by any upstream/distro oriented
>customers. In order to reduce code complexity, drop the kernel code,
>clean build config options and delete useless kTLS vs. TLS separation.
>
>[1] https://network.nvidia.com/related-docs/eol/LCR-000286.pdf
>
>Thanks
>
>BTW, the target of this series is mlx5-next, as other series removes
>FPGA IPsec together with relevant cleanup in RDMA side.
>

Other than the renaming ktls => tls comment, which is not a big deal
anyhow. The series looks great.

Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>