From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A397CA0 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:59:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160B2304039 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:59:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.141]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id QJG6FH9LeIXSld8t for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:59:14 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: RFC: dropping IRIX support in xfsprogs Message-ID: <20160818205914.GI19025@dastard> References: <20160818174742.GA14464@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160818174742.GA14464@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs