> But the merge at this point would be somewhat difficult because you'd need > to pull Christian's branch into your tree to get bdev_open_by_path() in the > first place. And that branch already depends on some changes in the btrfs > tree. So to save ourselves some headaches during the merge window, I think > not removing the old functions until bcachefs gets merged is the easiest > solution. I dropped commit 8ea3ec0740bdea9105eb416f07eef5d031b9385a Author: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed Sep 27 11:34:35 2023 +0200 Commit: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Thu Sep 28 16:51:49 2023 +0200 block: Remove blkdev_get_by_*() functions blkdev_get_by_*() and blkdev_put() functions are now unused. Remove them. Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927093442.25915-29-jack@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> for now. You can find an archive of that branch including that commit under the tag vfs.super.2023-10-09 Thanks!