From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1VRR84-0002zQ-Tj for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:26:33 +0000 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:22:27 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Brian Norris Subject: Re: JFFS2 SUMMARY prior to Linux 3.9 Message-ID: <20131002182227.GA7065@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: Linux mtd , David Woodhouse , Ricard Wanderlof , Kees Cook List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 10:57:04AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ricard Wanderlof > wrote: > > I've noticed that JFFS2 summary has been relieved of it's EXPERIMENTAL > > status since Linux 3.9 . But was it stable enough before then as well? - > > often the EXPERIMENTAL property lingers on longer that it really needs to. > > AFAIK, JFFS2 hasn't changed much for many releases, so its current > status pretty well reflects its status for many previous releases. > > Regarding the EXPERIMENTAL status; this was changed without CC'ing the > MTD list (although David was CC'd, it seems) in commit: > > commit cf98c5e56807af7c793497bbd0446f71c383ffd5 > Author: Kees Cook > Date: Wed Jan 16 18:54:12 2013 -0800 > > fs/jffs2: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL > > Judging by the commit description, this change just represents a > change in attitude toward the CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Kconfig option > rather than any particular judgment of JFFS2 summary support. CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL was removed from the entire kernel, as it really didn't mean anything anymore, and hadn't for _years_. greg k-h