On 8/27/21 10:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. You're still not explaining why it should go asap, just that yes it will provide this deprecation warning asap if we queue it up asap. Which is a given. As I said, I don't really care that much about it, but it would be nice to have some actual justification for WHY it should go out asap. It's not really about risk. -- Jens Axboe
