Re: [PATCH] libosd: Remove ignored __weak attribute

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Oct 02 2018 - 10:56:20 EST


On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 06:16:32PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Boaz, the most recent osd patch that is neither trivial nor treewide
> refactoring is six years old (51976a8c85ce ("[SCSI] osd_uld: Add osdname &
> systemid sysfs at scsi_osd class"). That suggests that nobody is using this
> driver anymore. Can this driver be removed from the kernel tree?

Last time we tried to exofs and the osd code Boaz complained loudly,
but as far as I can tell it really is not used and bitrotting, so we
should finally go ahead and drop it.