From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>,
Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: rename writeback_compressed device attr
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:03:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260225190329.8f76b847d391c71d58988234@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260226025429.1042083-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org>
On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:54:21 +0900 Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> wrote:
> Rename writeback_compressed attr to compressed_writeback
> to avoid possible confusion and have more natural naming.
> writeabck_compressed may look like an alternative version
> of writeback while in fact writeback_compressed only sets
> a writeback property. Make this distinction more clear
> with a new compressed_writeback name.
>
> ...
>
> Andrew, the code in question is in 7.0-rc1, it has not been
> released yet, so we think it's safe to rename the attribute
> without breaking userspace. Can you please pick this patch
> for 7.0-rc2?
Fair enough. I'll add
Fixes: 4c1d61389e8e ("zram: introduce writeback_compressed device attribute")
and shall queue it as a hotfix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-26 3:03 UTC|newest]
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2026-02-26 2:54 Sergey Senozhatsky
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2026-02-26 3:34 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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