linux/Documentation
Dan Williams 83762cb5c7 dax: Kill DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT
The /sys/class/dax compatibility option has shipped in the kernel for 4
years now which should be sufficient time for tools to abandon the old
ABI in favor of the /sys/bus/dax device-model. Delete it now and see if
anyone screams.

Since this compatibility option shipped there has been more reports of
users being surprised by the compat ABI than surprised by the "new", so
the compat infrastructure has outlived its usefulness. Recall that
/sys/bus/dax device-model is required for the dax kmem driver which
allows PMEM to be used as "System RAM".

The following projects were known to have a dependency on /sys/class/dax
and have dropped their dependency as of the listed version:

- ndctl (including libndctl, daxctl, and libdaxctl): v64+
- fio: v3.13+
- pmdk: v1.5.2+

As further evidence this option is no longer needed some distributions
have already stopped enabling CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT.

Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163701116195.3784476.726128179293466337.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2021-11-24 19:21:35 -08:00
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ABI dax: Kill DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT 2021-11-24 19:21:35 -08:00
accounting
admin-guide A slow cycle for nfsd: mainly cleanup, including Neil's patch dropping 2021-11-10 16:45:54 -08:00
arm ARM: SoC updates for v5.16 2021-11-03 16:48:32 -07:00
arm64 Merge branch 'for-next/trbe-errata' into for-next/core 2021-10-29 12:25:33 +01:00
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bpf docs/bpf: Update documentation for BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG typedef support 2021-10-22 17:04:44 -07:00
cdrom drivers/cdrom: improved ioctl for media change detection 2021-09-14 20:05:26 -06:00
core-api Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-11-06 14:08:17 -07:00
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features parisc: Move thread_info into task struct 2021-11-01 07:35:59 +01:00
filesystems f2fs-for-5.16-rc1 2021-11-13 11:20:22 -08:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide Documentation: ACPI: Fix non-D0 probe _DSC object example 2021-11-10 13:59:12 +01:00
fpga
gpu drm-misc-next for 5.16: 2021-11-05 13:50:15 +10:00
hid
hwmon Driver core changes for 5.16-rc1 2021-11-04 08:32:38 -07:00
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kernel-hacking docs: futex: Fix kernel-doc references 2021-10-19 17:27:05 +02:00
leds leds: add new LED_FUNCTION_PLAYER for player LEDs for game controllers. 2021-10-27 09:49:29 +02:00
litmus-tests
livepatch
locking doc: drm: remove TODO entry regarding DRM_MODSET_LOCK_ALL cleanup 2021-10-01 13:01:05 -04:00
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nios2
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openrisc
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PCI pci-v5.15-changes 2021-09-07 19:13:42 -07:00
pcmcia
power Documentation: power: include kernel-doc in Energy Model doc 2021-09-07 21:17:28 +02:00
powerpc
process docs: submitting-patches: make section about the Link: tag more explicit 2021-10-28 13:53:47 -06:00
RCU rcu: Fix undefined Kconfig macros 2021-09-13 16:32:46 -07:00
riscv
s390
scheduler sched/fair: Add document for burstable CFS bandwidth 2021-10-05 15:51:41 +02:00
scsi
security net,lsm,selinux: revert the security_sctp_assoc_established() hook 2021-11-12 12:07:02 -05:00
sh
sound ASoC: doc: update codec example code 2021-10-25 12:36:14 +01:00
sparc
sphinx
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spi spi: Remove unused function spi_busnum_to_master() 2021-10-07 15:45:57 +01:00
staging
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timers Documentation/no_hz: Introduce "dyntick-idle mode" before using it 2021-09-27 11:31:11 -06:00
trace tracing/histogram: Update division by 0 documentation 2021-11-01 20:46:29 -04:00
translations Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-11-06 14:08:17 -07:00
usb
userspace-api Char/Misc driver update for 5.16-rc1 2021-11-04 08:21:47 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-sev-move-context' into kvm-master 2021-11-11 11:02:58 -05:00
vm mm/migrate.c: remove MIGRATE_PFN_LOCKED 2021-11-11 09:34:35 -08:00
w1 dt-bindings: w1: update w1-gpio.yaml reference 2021-09-16 21:02:09 -05:00
watchdog
x86 - Add the model number of a new, Raptor Lake CPU, to intel-family.h 2021-11-14 09:29:03 -08:00
xtensa
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asm-annotations.rst docs: use the lore redirector everywhere 2021-10-12 13:58:19 -06:00
atomic_bitops.txt
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