Re: RFC: removing non-linux platform support from xfsprogs

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:59 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> On Mar 23, 2018, at 4:10 AM, Jan Tulak <jtulak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Darrick J. Wong
>> <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:17:30AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 5/27/17 2:41 AM, Jan Tulak wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> There's a bunch of mucking about to try to build xfsprogs on non-linux
>>>>>> platforms.  Is anyone using that, or care about it?  If not, I propose
>>>>>> removing it all in a cruft-reducing effort.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I'm missing some good reason for it to be there, please educate me,
>>>>>> and I'll leave it alone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In particular, Jan - I know you did a lot of this work - do you still
>>>>>> use it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I used the macos stuff at the beginning to get into the code with
>>>>> little risk of breaking anything. Until it is possible to mount xfs in
>>>>> the other systems, xfsprogs is useless there... So, I'm ok with the
>>>>> removal of macos code. I don't know how it is with the other systems,
>>>>> though.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, thanks - honestly if you still use it, that's fine.  But if you're
>>>> not ... and nobody else is ... let's nuke it.  ;)
>>>
>>> Ten months and nobody else has said anything, let's nuke non-linux
>>> support.
>>>
>>
>> Sure. Are you working on it, or would you appreciate if someone took
>> care of it? :-)
>>
>
> Patches are already on the list :)
>

Ah, sorry, I didn't see that one. Thanks.

Jan
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [XFS Filesystem Development (older mail)]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Trails]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]


  Powered by Linux