linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] aio poll fixes for 5.16-rc5

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh5X0iQ7dDY1joBj0eoZ65rbMb4-v0ewirN1teY8VD=8A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:18:12 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ramji Jiyani <ramjiyani@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
        Xie Yongji <xieyongji@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] aio poll fixes for 5.16-rc5

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:33 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> This has been tested with the libaio test suite, as well as with test
> programs I wrote that reproduce the first two bugs.  I am sending this
> pull request myself as no one seems to be maintaining this code.

Pulled.

The "nobody really maintains or cares about epoll/aio" makes me wonder
if we should just remove the "if EXPERT" from the config options we
have on them, and start encouraging people to perhaps not even build
that code any more?

Because I'm sure we have users of it, but maybe they are few enough
that saying "don't enable this feature unless you need it" is the
right thing to do...

               Linus