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

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Message-ID: <aPlWh6mBAmRINhfp@krikkit>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:11:19 +0200
From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, 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

2025-10-22, 08:10:51 +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.

nit: typos: s/remoced/removed/ and s/secomd/second/

> 
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
> Acked-by: Antony Antony <antony.antony@...unet.com>
> Acked-by: Tobias Brunner <tobias@...ongswan.org>

Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>

The deprecation/removal plan sounds good to me.

-- 
Sabrina