Re: [PATCH] libosd: Remove ignored __weak attribute

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:01 AM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 10:54 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > If creating one instance of this variable is a functional change, I
> > can't help but suspect the original code was wrong.  But maybe Bart,
> > Boaz, or Christoph can clarify or have more thoughts on this?  Looks
> > like Boaz added this header in commit de258bf5e638 ("[SCSI] libosd:
> > OSDv1 Headers").
>
> Hi Nick and Nathan,
>
> Had you noticed the following e-mail from early October:
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=153849955503249?

>From this subthread with Linus, removal of the exofs fs and scsi osd
code would be a user visible change and is not an option. See:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/27/3
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/27/44

So we should pursue this much smaller fixup.  Boaz, can you clarify
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/26/682
specifically:

> If creating one instance of this variable is a functional change, I
> can't help but suspect the original code was wrong.  But maybe Bart,
> Boaz, or Christoph can clarify or have more thoughts on this?  Looks
> like Boaz added this header in commit de258bf5e638 ("[SCSI] libosd:
> OSDv1 Headers").

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers