Re: [PATCH 2/8] aio: disable retry

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Zach Brown <zach.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This patch ensures that aio ops won't be retried.  Code that uses EIOCBRETRY
> will fail to build and modules that reference kick_iocb() won't load.
>
> This simplifies an upcoming patch by ensuring that it doesn't have to support
> aio ops that retry.  Further patches could remove much more of fs/aio.c if we
> chose to remove retry-based aio support.

Frankly, the retry-based AIO never made it, and no one has been
promoting it for, what, 5 years or more?  Let's just get rid of it.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
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