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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:04:08 +0900 From: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <zhouxianrong@...wei.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:58:38PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > We had a deprecated_attr_warn() warning for 2 years and now the > time has come and we finally can do the cleanup. > > The plan was as follows: > > : per-stat sysfs attributes are considered to be deprecated. > : The basic strategy is: > : -- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11) > : -- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11) > : > : The list of deprecated attributes can be found here: > : Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram > : > : Basically, every attribute that has its own read accessible sysfs > : node (e.g. num_reads) *AND* is accessible via one of the stat files > : (zram<id>/stat or zram<id>/io_stat or zram<id>/mm_stat) is considered > : to be deprecated. > > The patch also removes `obsolete/sysfs-block-zram', clean ups > `testing/sysfs-block-zram' and tweaks zram.txt files. > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
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