Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs updates for 6.8

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jan 11 2024 - 17:57:34 EST


On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 05:47:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No, because the whole idea of "let me mark something deprecated and
> then not just remove it" is GARBAGE.
>
> If somebody wants to deprecate something, it is up to *them* to finish
> the job. Not annoy thousands of other developers with idiotic
> warnings.

What would be nice is something that warned about _new_ uses being
added. ie checkpatch. Let's at least not make the problem worse.