netdev - Re: On KCM maintenance

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Message-ID: <20240809213804.7fa79cf1@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 21:38:04 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@...dex.ru>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 lvc-project@...uxtesting.org, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, Willem de
 Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: On KCM maintenance

On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 08:13:11 +0300 Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> Recently I've posted a tiny pretend-to-be-a-fix for KCM sockets, see
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240801130833.680962-1-dmantipov@yandex.ru/T/#u,
> and now I have a question about the subsystem's maintenance status. Since net/kcm
> is not even listed in MAINTAINERS, it would be interesting to know whether the
> subsystem in subject is actually alive and worth any further development efforts.

Maybe float a patch to delete it, and let's see if anyone screams?

The concept KCM implements is really nice, but the lack of bug reports
also has been making me wonder if its in use.