Re: [PATCH 18/22] mm: mark DEVICE_PUBLIC as broken

Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25T07:29:53Z

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:26:48PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 13-06-19 11:43:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The code hasn't been used since it was added to the tree, and doesn't
> > appear to actually be usable. Mark it as BROKEN until either a user
> > comes along or we finally give up on it.
>
> I would go even further and simply remove all the DEVICE_PUBLIC code.

I looked into that as I now got the feedback twice. It would
create a conflict with another tree cleaning things up around the
is_device_private defintion, but otherwise I'd be glad to just remove
it.

Jason, as this goes through your tree, do you mind the additional
conflict?