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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: RFC: dropping IRIX support in xfsprogs
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:59:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160818205914.GI19025@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160818174742.GA14464@infradead.org>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:47:42AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to know if anyone would complain about removing IRIX support
> in xfsprogs?  It very much looks unmaintained for years, and due to
> the IRIX differences in type defintions and kernel interfaces it's
> actually a bit of a drag on xfsprogs, so unlike the other ports
> to FreeBSD and Darwin it would actually be really helpful to remove
> it.
> 
> I'd volunteer to prepare patches to remove the IRIX support and do
> the resulting cleanups.

We dropped support for older irix only filesystems some time ago,
so this seems like a natural progression from that. I have no
objections to removing it...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-18 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-18 17:47 RFC: dropping IRIX support in xfsprogs Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-18 19:51 ` Troy McCorkell
2016-08-18 20:59 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-08-18 21:56   ` RFC: " Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-18 22:43     ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-19  2:07       ` Christoph Hellwig

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