From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [patch] fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:49:29 -0400 Message-ID: <20081021214929.GA24243@infradead.org> References: <20080924234116.GC30307@wotan.suse.de> <20081017173445.GA10293@infradead.org> <1224269128.15582.9.camel@badari-desktop> <20081021062020.GA17785@wotan.suse.de> <20081021143518.cc48a382.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081021213635.GA19677@infradead.org> <20081021144505.ad66aa91.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , npiggin@suse.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, pbadari@us.ibm.com To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55024 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755891AbYJUVtb (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:49:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081021144505.ad66aa91.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:45:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Obviously, multiple repetition of the reasons why this is a poor idea > didn't sink in, so I won't trouble you with another repetition. Sorry, but there's absolutely no point of keeping dead code around for out of tree code. It just means we keep dead weight around, that we can't test and thus won't fix. It's not actually doing a service to anyone.