Re: [PATCH] remove irix support

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On 1/8/17 3:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The port of the opensource xfsprogs to IRIX always was secondary to the
> "real" tools in the IRIX tree.  IRIX has effectively been EOLed, and
> dropping support for it will allow cleaning up various things in the XFS
> tree where IRIX was oddly different from the other ports.  E.g. that the
> xfsctl function needs a path and a fd, something we could replace with
> just documenting to use ioctl in the future, or various ifdefs in the
> headers shared with the kernel for structures provided by native headers
> in IRIX.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Seems pretty reasonable at this point.

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

-Eric

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