From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Josh Boyer" Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:06:39 -0600 Message-ID: <625fc13d0612120506g3e4d1e54w8549989faf63031a@mail.gmail.com> References: <457EA2FE.3050206@garzik.org> <625fc13d0612120456p1d74663fp21e40ee84a8819bc@mail.gmail.com> <457EA86B.5010407@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Linux Kernel" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , jffs-dev@axis.com, "David Woodhouse" Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:51333 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751311AbWLLNGl (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:06:41 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1657031uga for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:06:40 -0800 (PST) To: "Jeff Garzik" In-Reply-To: <457EA86B.5010407@garzik.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 12/12/06, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > > On 12/12/06, 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. > > > > I'm usually all for killing broken code, but JFFS isn't really broken > > is it? Is there some burden it's causing by being in the kernel at > > the moment? > > It's always been the case that we remove Linux kernel code when the > number of users (and more importantly, developers) drops to near-nil. > > Every line of code is one more place you have to audit when code > changes, one more place to update each time the VFS API is touched. Ok, I can buy that. > > When it's more likely to get struck by lightning than encounter > filesystem X on a random hard drive in the field, filesystem X need not > be in the kernel. Or flash chip in this case ;) josh