linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cachefiles: Drop superfluous readpages aops NULL check

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Date:   Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:06:40 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, dwysocha@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cachefiles: Drop superfluous readpages aops NULL check

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 08:53:07AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hmm,
> 
> what prevents us from killing of the last ->readpages instance?
> Leaving half-finished API conversions in the tree usually doesn't end
> well..

Dave's working on it.  Git tree:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=fscache-iter

(we've been collaborating and some of the prerequisites have trickled
into Linus' tree this merge window, eg the readahead changes)