On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 01:12:47PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > > > General tune is not holding the codebase hostage to obsolete (and > > probably not at all operational) components. If in doubt, prune it. > > What exactly is being held hostage, though? Do we have an API change > that gets blocked just by the old filesystems and if so, which one > it is? I was speaking in general. Some code uses obsolete APIs, other puts weird restrictions, some other has to be at least reviewed. General point being mere existence of code is an extra maintenance burden. If the code is beneficial to have, then so be it. But if the code at hand is not even used by anyone (and it is unclear if it even works), what's the point keeping it? -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>
