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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 08:51:22AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> 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.

Plans to eventually use something are no reason to keep code that's been
unused for almost 2 years around.  Unless the removal would conflict with
currently queued up in linux-next code it is always better to just drop
it and reinstate it when (or rather usually IFF) it is used again.