# Re: \[PATCH 01/16\] direct-io: remove blk\_poll support

- From: Chaitanya Kulkarni \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-10-28 01:26:55 
- List: linux-block
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2021/10/217285
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2021/10/215748/t.md

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On 10/12/21 4:12 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The polling support in the legacy direct-io support is a little crufty.
> It already doesn't support the asynchronous polling needed for io_uring
> polling, and is hard to adopt to upcoming changes in the polling
> interfaces.  Given that all the major file systems already use the iomap
> direct I/O code, just drop the polling support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Tested-by: Mark Wunderlich <redacted>
> ---

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>



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