linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/22] mm: mark DEVICE

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Message-ID: <20190625072915.GD30350@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:29:15 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/22] mm: mark DEVICE_PUBLIC as broken

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:26:48PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 13-06-19 11:43:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The code hasn't been used since it was added to the tree, and doesn't
> > appear to actually be usable.  Mark it as BROKEN until either a user
> > comes along or we finally give up on it.
> 
> I would go even further and simply remove all the DEVICE_PUBLIC code.

I looked into that as I now got the feedback twice.  It would
create a conflict with another tree cleaning things up around the
is_device_private defintion, but otherwise I'd be glad to just remove
it.

Jason, as this goes through your tree, do you mind the additional
conflict?