From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:53:59 -0800 Message-ID: <20061212095359.51483704.akpm@osdl.org> References: <457EA2FE.3050206@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jffs-dev@axis.com, David Woodhouse Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <457EA2FE.3050206@garzik.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:39:26 -0500 Jeff Garzik wrote: > I have created the 'kill-jffs' branch of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git that > removes fs/jffs. > > I argue that you can count the users (who aren't on 2.4) on one hand, > and developers don't seem to have cared for it in ages. > > People are already talking about jffs2 replacements, so I propose we zap > jffs in 2.6.21. It would be good to provide unignorable notice of this in 2.6.20. Via a loud printk, or perhaps even CONFIG_BROKEN or CONFIG_EMBEDDED.