[PATCH] mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Vlastimil,

Thanks for your patch!

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 11:12 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz> wrote:
> As discussed at LSF/MM [1] [2] and with no objections raised there,
> deprecate the SLAB allocator. Rename the user-visible option so that
> users with CONFIG_SLAB=y get a new prompt with explanation during make
> oldconfig, while make olddefconfig will just switch to SLUB.
>
> In all defconfigs with CONFIG_SLAB=y remove the line so those also
> switch to SLUB. Regressions due to the switch should be reported to
> linux-mm and slab maintainers.

Technically, removing these lines from the defconfig files does not
have any impact, right?
And it removes one more sync point indicating the last time some
defconfig files were (not) updated by their maintainers ;-)

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/4b9fc9c6-b48c-198f-5f80-811a44737e5f@suse.cz/
> [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz>

>  arch/m68k/configs/amiga_defconfig               |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/apollo_defconfig              |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/atari_defconfig               |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/bvme6000_defconfig            |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/hp300_defconfig               |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/mac_defconfig                 |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/multi_defconfig               |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/mvme147_defconfig             |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/mvme16x_defconfig             |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/q40_defconfig                 |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/sun3_defconfig                |  1 -
>  arch/m68k/configs/sun3x_defconfig               |  1 -

Regardless,
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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