Re: retiring laptop_mode? was Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: always allow writeback during memcg reclaim

[Jens Axboe]

On 12/16/25 11:52 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 11:41:07PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 03:08:38PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>>> Debated whether to add some sort of deprecation sysctl handler, but at
>>> least systemd-sysctl just prints a warning and still applies other
>>> settings from the same config file.
>>
>> In general dropping sysctl will break things.  So I think we'll need
>> a stub, at which point it might as well warn for a while.
> 
> Fair enough, I added that.
> 
> Jens, that change seemed small enough that I carried your Ack, but
> please let me know if you feel otherwise ;)

That's fine, fwiw I fully agree with that change.

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Jens Axboe