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

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Message-ID: <a8d32543-f783-9039-56af-ceb5e45e207a@nohats.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:11:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Wouters <paul@...ats.ca>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, 
    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, 22 Oct 2025, 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.

No supported libreswan version still uses the old NET_KEY PFKEY API.

Acked-by: Paul Wouters <paul@...ats.ca>

Paul