linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: Remove internal old mount API code

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Message-ID: <5d630a62-6774-43b8-a9b7-9b6ab56e25be@sandeen.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:21:07 -0600
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dhowells@...hat.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Remove internal old mount API code

On 12/15/25 8:02 AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:44:03 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Now that the last in-tree filesystem has been converted to the new mount
>> API, remove all legacy mount API code designed to handle un-converted
>> filesystems, and remove associated documentation as well.
>>
>> (The code to handle the legacy mount(2) syscall from userspace is still
>> in place, of course.)
>>
>> [...]
> 
> I love this. Thanks for all the work on this! :)

"Of the 56 or so kernel filesystems, around 30 still remain to be
converted, Sandeen said, so he has been joking that the completion
of the effort will be in 2026."

*phew* just under the wire ;)

-Eric