Re: [PATCH 5/4] misc: remove darwin, irix, and freebsd support

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 02:31:38PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 08:26:17AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 01:59:26PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > > On 3/20/18 10:19 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > Remove these ports since they're not actively maintained:
> > > > 
> > > > IRIX support was partially removed last year; the OS itself hasn't had a
> > > > release since 2006.
> > > > 
> > > > FreeBSD dropped XFS support in v9.3, which EOLd in January 2017.
> > > > 
> > > > Darwin/OSX has never supported XFS.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Probably should clean up more than just whole files, see bits & pieces
> > > sprinkled throughout:
> > > 
> > > include/builddefs.in 
> > > include/platform_defs.h.in
> > > include/gnukfreebsd.h (?)
> > 
> > So, this makes me wonder. IIRC, that's the header for the debian
> > distro on a freebsd kernel. That's a thing, and we package xfsprogs
> > in debian. Do they build xfsprogs for that platform, and if they do
> > do we care if we break it?
> 
> From the looks of it[1] they (Debian) don't package xfsprogs for
> kfreebsd (not even the wheezy release that supposedly had an xfs driver
> in the kernle) so I doubt anyone would care.

No worries, just making sure we cover all bases, because it seems
not every knows what "gnu/freebsd" is :P

Cheers,

Dave.
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