On 8/27/21 10:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:52:52AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> 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. > > Because as part of the overall huge loop discussion it has resurfaces > how broken it is, and how it is in the way of how the loop driver works. > Milan for example has argued for just removing it ASAP because of that, > but I guess providing at least a bit of time of deprecation would > be nice. Then again given that state I'd be perfectly fine with just > removing it in 5.16 without much of a warning either. OK fair enough, I'll queue it for 5.14. -- Jens Axboe
