# Re: \[CFT\]\[PATCH\] exit/bdflush: Remove the deprecated bdflush system call

- From: Geert Uytterhoeven \<geert@linux-m68k.org\>
- Date: 2021-06-30 08:25:13 
- List: linux-arch
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arch/2021/06/1429570
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arch/2021/06/1429256/t.md

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On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 10:28 PM Eric W. Biederman
[ref] wrote:
> The bdflush system call has been deprecated for a very long time.
> Recently Michael Schmitz tested[1] and found that the last known
> caller of of the bdflush system call is unaffected by it's removal.
>
> Since the code is not needed delete it.
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36123b5d-daa0-6c2b-f2d4-a942f069fd54@gmail.com
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>

>  arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl         |  2 +-

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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