From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] arch/*: config: Remove ReiserFS from defconfig Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:56:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20230920165659.coe7d2lydiaatoby@quack3> References: <20230918175529.19011-1-peter@n8pjl.ca> <20230918234108.GN19790@gate.crashing.org> <20230919000026.7409-1-peter@n8pjl.ca> <20230919151630.GO19790@gate.crashing.org> <20230919155832.4179-1-peter@n8pjl.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.cz; s=susede2_rsa; t=1695229020; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=arrJUNtqjU/izONia38ns6kqz5a2Ljs8vzyYYK7Z784=; b=B5zucAFR4XyR8/5tRFN24icRoW3Li46w9AYROy5fgeQHJjHHmWe1VBSTJAgJzltxBUTQfj A2xO9YmlmCUAHIhnO6bcsmBlTch94Tqw9Zrs2J99gUVXgRrg7N5SnwIhK/ADmsG7DqDXb5 NyDsDzox8Vmqa0S6njAX9jt6GCL7qPo= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.cz; s=susede2_ed25519; t=1695229020; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=arrJUNtqjU/izONia38ns6kqz5a2Ljs8vzyYYK7Z784=; b=TEI3317KDo5yb9aq6yYTvDHKSUd5zcn5XGrWvmgB48JFj1/RVX24vTZ5l0fScD+mlAMJpN CaN28xdVs9HUPMBA== Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Peter Lafreniere , segher@kernel.crashing.org, anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, jack@suse.cz, johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux@armlinux.org.uk, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, richard.henderson@linaro.org, richard@nod.at, tsbogend@alpha.franken.de On Tue 19-09-23 18:02:39, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Peter, >=20 > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 5:58=E2=80=AFPM Peter Lafreniere = wrote: > > 2) Stops building an obsolete and largely-unused filesystem unnecessar= ily. > > Some hobbyist targets like m68k and alpha may prefer to keep all fi= lesystems > > available until total removal, but others like arm and UML have no = need for > > ReiserFS to be built unless specifically configured. >=20 > As UML is used a lot for testing, isn't it actually counter-productive > to remove ReiserFS from the UML defconfig? The less testing it > receives, the higher the chance of introducing regressions. The only testing I know about for reiserfs (besides build testing) is syzbot. And regarding the people / bots doing filesystem testing I know none of them uses UML. Rather it is x86 VMs these days where reiserfs is disabled in the defconfig for a *long* time (many years). Also when you do filesystem testing, you usually just test the few filesystems you care about and for which you have all the tools installed. So frankly I don't see a good reason to leave reiserfs enabled in defconfigs. But sure if m68k or other arch wants to keep reiserfs in it's defconfig for some consistency reasons, I'm fine with it. I just suspect that for most archs this is just a historical reason. Honza --=20 Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR