On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 09:14:56AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > Also note, we usually do not care about the out-of-tree users. The main Q here > > why are they out-of-tree for so long time? > > We do not care. If some of this ever gets submitted it can add the > needed helpers back. > > This entire discussion is silly. > I'm surprised how you described it.... Now relay works like a filesystem which helps out-of-tree users transfer a large amount of data efficiently. it's totally not like other pure dead code. I meant what the trouble of just leaving it untouched in the kernel could be? Let me put in a simpler way, two options, 1) just clean up, 2) keep it and help so-called 'out-of-tree' users even if you don't care. I don't figure out what the difficulty of keeping it is :S It seems that turning it back to a filesystem again is the only way to stop debate, then no one would clean up its dead code and reckon it's obsolete any more :S
