[systemd-devel] Feedback sought: can we drop cgroupv1 support soon?

[Michal Koutný]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:15:02PM +0200, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> > OpenSUSE is still on cgroup1 by default in 15.4 for some reason.

SLE15 SP4 has hybrid and unified as equals. The default is v1 to prevent
surprises of the v1-dependant users.

> I mean, that Google isn't forward looking in these things is well
> known, but I am a bit surprised SUSE is still so far back.

openSUSE Tumbleweed uses v2 by default since 2021 and the future (ALP)
won't divert from that ;-)

> > I guess that would mean holding on to cgroup1 support until EOY 2023
> > or thereabout?
> 
> That does sound OK to me. We can mark it deprecated before though,
> i.e. generate warnings, and remove it from docs, as long as the actual
> code stays around until then.

That is reasonable.

Thanks,
Michal