netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 ipsec-next] pfkey: Deprecate pfkey

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Message-ID: <aQX8ipi5E7nccmJU@secunet.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 13:26:50 +0100
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To: 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>, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <devel@...ux-ipsec.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 ipsec-next] pfkey: Deprecate pfkey

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 07:29:09AM +0100, 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 removed in a second step.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
> Acked-by: Antony Antony <antony.antony@...unet.com>
> Acked-by: Tobias Brunner <tobias@...ongswan.org>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Acked-by: Tuomo Soini <tis@...bar.fi>
> Acked-by: Paul Wouters <paul@...ats.ca>

This is now applied to ipsec-next,

thanks everyone!