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What about missing (diabled) functionality?

What about missing (diabled) functionality?

Posted Oct 2, 2025 14:06 UTC (Thu) by geert (subscriber, #98403)
Parent article: Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel

After the removal of bcachefs, the following options are no longer enabled in my .config (they were selected by BCACHEFS_FS before):
XARRAY_MULTI
CLOSURES
MIN_HEAP

Missing CLOSURES and MIN_HEAP are easy to handle, as the bcachefs module can just include a copy.
But XARRAY_MULTI has a big impact on how xarray works, and can't easily be bolted-on from a module.
How does DKMS handle that?

XARRAY_MULTI is also selected by a few other options (e.g. HUGETLB_PAGE, TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE, and ZONE_DEVICE), so most distro kernels on x86 may have it.


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