From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] mm: remove newly-unused page wrapper APIs
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 01:02:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aumjF5peb2vyuncA@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261102175605.a0d9caee8279ffb5f6fdf15f@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 05:56:05PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 9 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)
>
> Tal, you obviously haven't been following along ;)
>
>
> This development cycle is not the one for cleanups and new features,
> but this one sneaks through!
Given that this is purely dead code removal I'd actually vote for
fast tracking this into 7.3-rc. Unused API better be removed ASAP
before people start using them again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-02 22:54 Tal Zussman
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: remove wait_on_page_writeback() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:34 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:42 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:32 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: remove end_page_writeback() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:36 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:43 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: remove clear_page_dirty_for_io() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:39 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:44 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:34 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: remove attach_page_private() and detach_page_private() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:40 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:44 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:34 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm: remove find_get_page_flags() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:41 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:45 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: remove find_lock_page() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:43 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:46 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm: remove read_cache_page_gfp() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:45 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:46 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:37 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm: remove thp_size() and thp_order() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:48 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:47 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:42 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-03 1:56 ` [PATCH 0/8] mm: remove newly-unused page wrapper APIs Andrew Morton
2026-11-03 8:45 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-03 9:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-11-03 9:29 ` Vishal Moola (Fractile)
2026-11-03 9:14 ` Vishal Moola (Fractile)
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