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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: require 64-bit sector_t
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:01:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131213230106.GN1935@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131213213701.GM1935@sgi.com>

Hey, 
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 03:37:01PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:46:03AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Trying to support tiny disks only and saving a bit memory might have
> > made sense on an SGI O2 15 years ago, but is pretty pointless today.
> > 
> > Remove the rarely tested codepath that uses various smaller in-memory
> > types to reduce our test matrix and make the codebase a little bit
> > smaller and less complicated.
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/Kconfig b/fs/xfs/Kconfig
> > index 399e8ce..5d47b4d 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/Kconfig
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/Kconfig
> > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> >  config XFS_FS
> >  	tristate "XFS filesystem support"
> >  	depends on BLOCK
> > +	depends on (64BIT || LBDAF)
> 
> There are quite a few 32 bit arches in use today.  We need to continue to
> support them in XFS as long as they are supported by the kernel.  Unless I have
> misunderstood what you are suggesting, I believe the answer to this patch must
> be a firm 'no'.

I stepped away for a few minutes and realized my mistake.   ;/ 

Apologies!  I'll take another look at the rest of the patch.

Thanks,
	Ben

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-13 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-14 16:46 [PATCH] xfs: require 64-bit sector_t Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-10 16:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-16 14:47   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-13 21:37 ` Ben Myers
2013-12-13 23:01   ` Ben Myers [this message]
2013-12-16 22:15 ` Ben Myers
2014-01-09 15:19   ` Ben Myers
2014-01-09 18:48     ` Michael L. Semon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-16 16:44 Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-17 14:14 ` Brian Foster
2014-06-18 15:21   ` Christoph Hellwig

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