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

Daniel P. Berrangé posted 2 patches 3 years, 7 months ago
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MAINTAINERS                |  1 -
block/sheepdog.c           | 15 +++++++++++++++
configure                  |  5 +++--
docs/system/deprecated.rst |  9 +++++++++
4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
[PATCH v2 0/2] block: deprecate the sheepdog driver
Posted by Daniel P. Berrangé 3 years, 7 months ago
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


Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block: deprecate the sheepdog driver
Posted by Neal Gompa 3 years, 7 months ago
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:16 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 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?

Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>


-- 
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Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block: deprecate the sheepdog driver
Posted by Daniel P. Berrangé 3 years, 7 months ago
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:09:06PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:16 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 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?

This is only deprecation in QEMU, the feature still exists and is
intended to be as fully functional as in previous releases.

Assuming QEMU actually deletes the feature at end of the deprecation
cycle, then libvirt would look at removing its own support.


Regards,
Daniel
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Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block: deprecate the sheepdog driver
Posted by Neal Gompa 3 years, 7 months ago
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 1:43 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:09:06PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:16 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 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?
>
> This is only deprecation in QEMU, the feature still exists and is
> intended to be as fully functional as in previous releases.
>
> Assuming QEMU actually deletes the feature at end of the deprecation
> cycle, then libvirt would look at removing its own support.
>

Does that stop us from deprecating it in libvirt though?

-- 
真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!


Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block: deprecate the sheepdog driver
Posted by Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy 3 years, 7 months ago
22.09.2020 21:11, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 1:43 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:09:06PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:16 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 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?
>>
>> This is only deprecation in QEMU, the feature still exists and is
>> intended to be as fully functional as in previous releases.
>>
>> Assuming QEMU actually deletes the feature at end of the deprecation
>> cycle, then libvirt would look at removing its own support.
>>
> 
> Does that stop us from deprecating it in libvirt though?
> 

I think not. Libvirt is not intended to support all Qemu features and
I'm sure it doesn't. Amd it can safely deprecate features even if they
are not-deprecated in Qemu.

The only possible conflict is when Qemu wants to deprecate something
that Libvirt wants to continue support for (or even can't live without).

-- 
Best regards,
Vladimir

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block: deprecate the sheepdog driver
Posted by Peter Krempa 3 years, 7 months ago
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 18:42:52 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:09:06PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:16 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 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?
> 
> This is only deprecation in QEMU, the feature still exists and is
> intended to be as fully functional as in previous releases.
> 
> Assuming QEMU actually deletes the feature at end of the deprecation
> cycle, then libvirt would look at removing its own support.

There are two sheepdog-related bits in libvirt which are IMO completely
separate:

1) the blockdev backend handling for the 'sheepdog' protocol driver

 This is the one connected to qemu's deprecation, but until there is a
 qemu version where sheepdog wasn't deprecated/removed supported by
 libvirt we can't really do much about it.

 On the other hand it's just a few generators of arguments for
 -drive/-blockdev so the burden is very low.

2) the sheepdog storage driver

 This one is completely separate from qemu and we can decide to
 deprecate/delete it at our own schedule as it will not influence the
 ability to start VMs.

 The last non-housekeeping commit in that driver seems to be dated:
 Thu Jun 18 16:20:42 2015

 Similarly the burden of keeping this around is low, but I would not bat
 an eye if we remove it right away even.


Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block: deprecate the sheepdog driver
Posted by no-reply@patchew.org 3 years, 7 months ago
Patchew URL: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20200922161611.2049616-1-berrange@redhat.com/



Hi,

This series seems to have some coding style problems. See output below for
more information:

Type: series
Message-id: 20200922161611.2049616-1-berrange@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] block: deprecate the sheepdog driver

=== TEST SCRIPT BEGIN ===
#!/bin/bash
git rev-parse base > /dev/null || exit 0
git config --local diff.renamelimit 0
git config --local diff.renames True
git config --local diff.algorithm histogram
./scripts/checkpatch.pl --mailback base..
=== TEST SCRIPT END ===

Switched to a new branch 'test'
2c11635 block: deprecate the sheepdog block driver
aa3d54c block: drop moderated sheepdog mailing list from MAINTAINERS file

=== OUTPUT BEGIN ===
1/2 Checking commit aa3d54cfa28f (block: drop moderated sheepdog mailing list from MAINTAINERS file)
2/2 Checking commit 2c1163558579 (block: deprecate the sheepdog block driver)
ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
#54: FILE: block/sheepdog.c:247:
+    static bool warned = false;

total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 71 lines checked

Patch 2/2 has style problems, please review.  If any of these errors
are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

=== OUTPUT END ===

Test command exited with code: 1


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