On Nov 26, 2025, at 4:45 PM, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 at 13:43, Jon Kohler [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Linus mentioned he might get into the mix and do a bulk
change and kill the whole thing once and for all, so I’m
simply trying to help knock an incremental amount of work
off the pile in advance of that (and reap some performance
benefits at the same time, at least on the x86 side).

So I'm definitely going to do some bulk conversion at some point, but
honestly, I'll be a lot happier if most users already self-converted
before that, and I only end up doing a "convert unmaintained old code
that nobody really cares about".

                 Linus

That is fair, thanks Linus. I’ll see if I can pick off a couple
more to start thinning out the pile, and see what sort of trouble
I can get into.

Cheers - Jon