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

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Message-ID: <1175866.1611159129@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:12:09 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        dwysocha@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Matthew Wilcox \(Oracle\)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cachefiles: Drop superfluous readpages aops NULL check

Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> what prevents us from killing of the last ->readpages instance?
> Leaving half-finished API conversions in the tree usually doesn't end
> well..

I never got around to making cachefiles actually use ->readpages, so that's
not an issue.

David