Re: [PATCH] fs: Remove internal old mount API code
From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Tue Dec 16 2025 - 23:21:25 EST
On 12/15/25 8:02 AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:44:03 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Now that the last in-tree filesystem has been converted to the new mount
>> API, remove all legacy mount API code designed to handle un-converted
>> filesystems, and remove associated documentation as well.
>>
>> (The code to handle the legacy mount(2) syscall from userspace is still
>> in place, of course.)
>>
>> [...]
>
> I love this. Thanks for all the work on this! :)
"Of the 56 or so kernel filesystems, around 30 still remain to be
converted, Sandeen said, so he has been joking that the completion
of the effort will be in 2026."
*phew* just under the wire ;)
-Eric