netdev - Re: Regarding UDP-Lite deprecation and removal

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:29:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Lynne <dev@...ne.ee>
To: Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Kuniyu <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
	Willemdebruijn Kernel <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Regarding UDP-Lite deprecation and removal

Mar 17, 2024, 01:34 by dev@...ne.ee:

> Hello,
>
> UDP-Lite was scheduled to be removed in 2025 in commit
> be28c14ac8bbe1ff due to a lack of real-world users, and
> a long-outstanding security bug being left undiscovered.
>
> I would like to open a discussion to perhaps either avoid this,
> or delay it, conditionally.
>

Ping. To be clear, I am offering to maintain it if the current
maintainers do not have time to.

Should I send a patch to remove the warning? I wanted to
know the opinions of the ones who maintain/deprecated
the code first.