Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] umd: Remove usermode driver framework

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To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] umd: Remove usermode driver framework
From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:51:22 -0700
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>, Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@xxxxxxxxx>, Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx>, Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>, Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>, KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Hao Luo <haoluo@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, bpf <bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20250721-remove-usermode-driver-v1-2-0d0083334382@linutronix.de>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM Thomas Weißschuh
<thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The code is unused since commit 98e20e5e13d2 ("bpfilter: remove bpfilter"),
> remove it.

Correct, but we have plans to use it.
Since it's not causing any problems we prefer to keep it
to avoid reverting the removal later.

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- [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] umd: Remove usermode driver framework
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- [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] umd: Remove usermode driver framework
  - From: Thomas Weißschuh

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