From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B973C433F5 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDBF60F9F for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229673AbhINQXg (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:23:36 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36952 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229461AbhINQXf (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:23:35 -0400 Received: from mail-lj1-x234.google.com (mail-lj1-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::234]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36098C061762 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:22:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-lj1-x234.google.com with SMTP id g14so24971840ljk.5 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:22:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux-foundation.org; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=3dYD2uKNORcxZ6YMCdwcOxjjHXEclNcfa/CTjAP47gc=; b=aWJRDZPRQV27jEUKoc4qE6zGbRoWbKwm9kcYSPpoNuqjBLGs9WKOvCqbYQZ04P3jy1 4wsAum1KxojNT2yyO1DmteAlpzy+vIjQ6bjIvwLNB76bbbmj19VrvzgTZnYd6uwWG6vX yWKNOrbr5bi7cuk7kXat3qOTmWTGGPHSlwsBA= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=3dYD2uKNORcxZ6YMCdwcOxjjHXEclNcfa/CTjAP47gc=; b=Tz5uKgwWuRIW9mXo1tzKwyfkmrmNBPSbvadKckY6zdSJghRSwzpKekuP/FI+AtGgW3 qacZ3qvekgRzivi8XibGPakR5lBzwvg0ZwELLxYKe8FF4MNFYAztCdknj2dH+D3TGClO Csb57iWc0EoU8x3EoLCXOoQqcgWvwNBNFvCm1Ef68fMmmUgnmJYirjC6G5x+Ntnt+qOk mspZoGKyeNd+e5SvBv0zqnBvw0P82zxaak2T247SGj4GlQV50ebYFs1/YTJ5T0rgmEJ4 5+C1eqBB1VwNqhdu7TzSBDh+/m72J90U1PKpv0ojK6a5mguY9mFmZm+f1x0liIBdk/4O XzEA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530kWr0jfn3LVmrOae78pioQCJZPzEOG+a5dXdSzJUJxd2/ZFfmq aZ7Qfz3yAn75k5K/48ZE81y9UNvcddW0fLMRGxk= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzUX3Jw8KDOl3vxDYPKzbR3tLORvYEvgcBdwmX6Zbz8ruQpc9yPU7UnUEYZx1FGQXMOzIv4ig== X-Received: by 2002:a2e:7607:: with SMTP id r7mr16269840ljc.440.1631636535127; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-lf1-f53.google.com (mail-lf1-f53.google.com. [209.85.167.53]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n3sm1160452lft.63.2021.09.14.09.22.14 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-lf1-f53.google.com with SMTP id p29so3131961lfa.11 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:22:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a05:6512:3da5:: with SMTP id k37mr14013881lfv.655.1631636533920; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:22:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <163162767601.438332.9017034724960075707.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <163162767601.438332.9017034724960075707.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:21:58 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] fscache: Replace and remove old I/O API To: David Howells Cc: Trond Myklebust , Anna Schumaker , Steve French , Dominique Martinet , "open list:NFS, SUNRPC, AND..." , v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, Trond Myklebust , linux-cachefs@redhat.com, CIFS , Shyam Prasad N , Jeff Layton , Matthew Wilcox , Alexander Viro , linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 6:54 AM David Howells wrote: > > (1) A simple fallback API is added that can read or write a single page > synchronously. The functions for this have "deprecated" in their names > as they have to be removed at some point. I'm looking at those patches, and there's no way I'll apply anything that starts out with moving to a "deprecated" interface. 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". Linus