On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 10:28 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The bdflush system call has been deprecated for a very long time. > Recently Michael Schmitz tested[1] and found that the last known > caller of of the bdflush system call is unaffected by it's removal. > > Since the code is not needed delete it. > > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36123b5d-daa0-6c2b-f2d4-a942f069fd54@xxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > I think we have consensus that bdflush can be removed. Can folks please > verify I have removed it correctly? Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> We are traditionally somewhat inconsistent about whether to leave the __NR_bdflush macro present in asm/unistd.h or to remove it when the syscall is gone. Leaving it in place as you do is probably better here. Arnd
