Re: [PATCH 0/8] mm: remove newly-unused page wrapper APIs

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Tue Nov 03 2026 - 03:54:16 EST


On 11/3/26 02:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:54:05 -0500 Tal Zussman <tz2294@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> After some folio conversions done last cycle (namely ceph, f2fs, btrfs,
>> fuse, and page_io.c), there are a number of newly-unused page APIs.
>> Let's remove them and update comments as necessary.
>>
>> Patches 1 and 8 are taken from the ceph writeback folio series [1],
>> along with tags.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> 9 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)
>
> Tal, you obviously haven't been following along ;)
>
>

I would pick this up after giving it a little bit more time for review.

> This development cycle is not the one for cleanups and new features,
> but this one sneaks through!

Yeah, the focus will be on fixes. But smaller stuff like this or some other
things we wanted to get finished for a while that are easy to handle can go in.

All bigger work likely has to wait.

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Cheers,

David