Re: RFC: dropping IRIX support in xfsprogs

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:47:42AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to know if anyone would complain about removing IRIX support
> in xfsprogs?  It very much looks unmaintained for years, and due to
> the IRIX differences in type defintions and kernel interfaces it's
> actually a bit of a drag on xfsprogs, so unlike the other ports
> to FreeBSD and Darwin it would actually be really helpful to remove
> it.
> 
> I'd volunteer to prepare patches to remove the IRIX support and do
> the resulting cleanups.

We dropped support for older irix only filesystems some time ago,
so this seems like a natural progression from that. I have no
objections to removing it...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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