linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] fscache: Replace and remove old I/O API

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Message-ID: <738326.1631645944@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:59:04 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
        "open list:NFS, SUNRPC, AND..." <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        linux-cachefs@...hat.com, CIFS <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@...il.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] fscache: Replace and remove old I/O API

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > Call it "fallback" or "simple" or something that shows the intent, but
> > no, I'm not taking patches that introduce a _new_ interface and call
> > it "deprecated".

Yeah, I'll change it to "fallback" - I started talking about it like that in
the docs anyway.

> Put another way: to call something "deprecated", you have to already
> have the replacement all ready to go.

We're not far off.  There's a fair distance (in number of patches) between
this patchset and the completion, hence why I marked them as deprecated here,
intending to remove them at the end.  Between myself, Jeff and Dave we have
fscache, cachefiles, afs, ceph and nfs (almost) covered.  I have patches for
9p and I've given a partial patch for cifs to Steve and Shyam.

David