linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] fs: Remove old mount API helpers

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Message-ID: <20250723132156.225410-1-pfalcato@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:21:53 +0100
From: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
	Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] fs: Remove old mount API helpers

Based on linux-next as of 23 July 2025.

This patchset contains a very small cleanup, where we remove mount_nodev
(unused since 6.15) and mount_bdev (unused since f2fs converted their
mount API usage, still in -next). Obviously depends on the f2fs patches
(maybe should be merged through their tree? I don't know.).

While we're at it, we also get to removing some stale mount API docs.

I did look into removing ->mount() altogether, but sadly 9pfs is still
using it.

Pedro Falcato (3):
  fs: Remove mount_nodev
  fs: Remove mount_bdev
  docs/vfs: Remove mentions to the old mount API helpers

 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 27 +------------
 fs/super.c                        | 63 -------------------------------
 include/linux/fs.h                |  6 ---
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)

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