On 6/24/22 12:40, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 12:50 PM Hans-Peter Jansen
wrote: Hi Guys,
looks like Nick Wang (drbd maintainer) isn't active anymore.
Do we have a plan, how to maintain the drbd stuff, specifically the kernel module. Before I wrote this, I looked into it of course, but failed (wouldn't write this mail otherwise..).
This coccinelle stuff scares me to death.
Needless to say, drbd-kmod doesn't build anymore since the release of kernel 5.18.
E-h-h ... drbd driver is part of the upstream kernel (drivers/block/drbd). What's wrong with the in-tree driver and why a separate external module is needed?
Because Linbit is developing the DRBD driver outside the kernel, and it has diverged quite heavily from the in-kernel one. And having far more features to boot. So just falling back to the in-kernel one is not making you any friends, especially not with existing installations. Cheers, Hannes