linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] Drop flex

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Message-ID: <20180523073917.618db21a@lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 23 May 2018 07:39:17 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, willy@...radead.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, dev@...nvswitch.org, shli@...nel.org,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Drop flex_arrays

On Tue, 22 May 2018 21:18:21 -0400
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com> wrote:

> All existing users have been converted to generic radix trees
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/flexible-arrays.rst | 130 -------
>  Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt          | 123 -------
>  include/linux/flex_array.h                 | 149 --------
>  include/linux/poison.h                     |   3 -
>  lib/Makefile                               |   2 +-
>  lib/flex_array.c                           | 398 ---------------------
>  tools/include/linux/poison.h               |   3 -
>  7 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 807 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/flexible-arrays.rst
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt
>  delete mode 100644 include/linux/flex_array.h
>  delete mode 100644 lib/flex_array.c

Interesting, I didn't realize that flexible-arrays.txt was still there;
that should go regardless (and 00-INDEX adjusted accordingly).  If you zap
the RST file, though, you should also fix Documentation/core-api/index.rst
or you'll break the docs build.

Thanks,

jon