On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 6:54 AM David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:

 (1) A simple fallback API is added that can read or write a single page
     synchronously.  The functions for this have "deprecated" in their names
     as they have to be removed at some point.

I'm looking at those patches, and there's no way I'll apply anything
that starts out with moving to a "deprecated" interface.

Call it "fallback" or "simple" or something that shows the intent, but
no, I'm not taking patches that introduce a _new_ interface and call
it "deprecated".

            Linus