On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:48:09AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > I don't disagree with that, but that's not a new situation. Hence my > question on why there's this sudden mad rush to get it queued up for > removal, literally a few days before a kernel release. Because this allows the very useful deprecation warning to go out ASAP. It's not like printing a message and adding a little Kconfig text has any risk.