[RFC PATCH] mm: z3fold: rename CONFIG_Z3FOLD to CONFIG_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Wed Jan 17 02:38:54 AEDT 2024
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 04:38:30PM -0800, Nhat Pham wrote:
> >
> > I thought deprecating z3fold is the low hanging fruit. Then, once we
> > can sort out the MMU dependency in zsmalloc, we can go after zbud as
> > well.
>
> Makes sense to me. Should we do the same thing to zbud? We probably
> have even less of a case for it, no?
Is there any user visible effect of switching the allocator? If not it
seems a bit pointless to deprecate them vs just removing them (or maybe
making z3fold depend on !MMU for now).
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