netdev - Re: On KCM maintenance

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Message-ID: <CALx6S37hSfQWw3Rku8vsavn8ejk0fndRk+=-=73gU7G-RbnK8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:40:09 -0700
From: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@...dex.ru>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	lvc-project@...uxtesting.org, 
	Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: On KCM maintenance

On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 9:38 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

It's possible it's not in use and I suppose we could see what happens.
Hopefully, it won't result in someone reinventing it...

Tom