Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] fscache: Replace and remove old I/O API

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 6:54 AM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> 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