Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: remove the per-bio/request write hint.

hch
2022-03-10T14:21:55Z

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 11:34:40AM +0000, Luca Porzio (lporzio) wrote:
> I work for Micron UFS team. I confirm and support Manjong message above.
> There are UFS customers using custom write_hint in Android and due to the
> "upstream first" policy from Google, if you remove write_hints in block device,
> The Android ecosystem will suffer this lack.
>
> Can we revert back this decision? Or think of an alternative solution which
> may work?

Hell no. Given that these custmomers never gave a singe fuck to actually
support whatever crap they came up with upstream we're not going to leave
dead code to encurage them to keep doing this.