netdev - Re: [PATCH ipsec-next] pfkey: Deprecate pfkey

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Message-ID: <aPiQR7cRRGBNC8dT@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:05:27 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc: Paul Wouters <paul@...ats.ca>,
	Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@...ongswan.org>,
	Tobias Brunner <tobias@...ongswan.org>,
	Antony Antony <antony@...nome.org>, Tuomo Soini <tis@...bar.fi>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...ux-ipsec.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec-next] pfkey: Deprecate pfkey

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 08:10:51AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> The pfkey user configuration interface was replaced by the netlink
> user configuration interface more than a decade ago. In between
> all maintained IKE implementations moved to the netlink interface.
> So let config NET_KEY default to no in Kconfig. The pfkey code
> will be remoced in a secomd step.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
> Acked-by: Antony Antony <antony.antony@...unet.com>
> Acked-by: Tobias Brunner <tobias@...ongswan.org>
> ---
> 
> Antony, Tobias, I kept the Acked-by tags from the RFC version.
> Let me know if that's ok.
> 
>  net/key/af_key.c |  2 ++
>  net/xfrm/Kconfig | 11 +++++++----
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Thanks,
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