On 12/10/18 08:56, Dongli Zhang wrote: > Hi Jens, > > Will the legacy path be fully deprecated? > > In addition to performance measurement, null_blk is a very good tutorial for > beginners to understand how to implement a legacy path based block driver from > scratch. Unless legacy path is not used any longer, why not keep it in the code > as a tutorial? But when there is no tutorial on how to write drivers for the legacy path no one will write drivers for the legacy path and will be upset when we remove it. Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn SUSE Labs jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850