Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block: deprecate the sheepdog driver

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:16 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > 2 years back I proposed dropping the sheepdog mailing list from the > MAINTAINERS file, but somehow the patch never got picked up: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-03/msg01048.html > > So here I am with the same patch again. > > This time I go further and deprecate the sheepdog driver entirely. > See the rationale in the second patch commit message. > > Daniel P. Berrangé (2): > block: drop moderated sheepdog mailing list from MAINTAINERS file > block: deprecate the sheepdog block driver > > MAINTAINERS | 1 - > block/sheepdog.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ > configure | 5 +++-- > docs/system/deprecated.rst | 9 +++++++++ > 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.26.2 > > I don't know of anyone shipping this other than Fedora, and I certainly don't use it there. Upstream looks like it's unmaintained now, with no commits in over two years: https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog/commits/master Can we also get a corresponding change to eliminate this from libvirt?