From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com ([74.125.82.65]:54712 "EHLO mail-wm0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752266AbeCVUVG (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:21:06 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f65.google.com with SMTP id h76so18330136wme.4 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:21:02 +0100 From: Carlos Maiolino Subject: Re: [RFC] xfsprogs: remove irix, darwin, freebsd support Message-ID: <20180322202102.wpff347scdmfpv62@odin.usersys.redhat.com> References: <20180321001456.GM1757@magnolia> <17870b11-8567-7938-e510-dbc22fd107f6@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17870b11-8567-7938-e510-dbc22fd107f6@sandeen.net> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: Eric Sandeen Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" , xfs , Eric Sandeen On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 02:49:42PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 3/20/18 7:14 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This is a metapatch proposing that we drop all the non-Linux xfsprogs > > ports. > > > > Irix hasn't had a release since August 2006. > > > > OSX doesn't support XFS and (afaict) never has. > > > > FreeBSD EOL'd v9.3 (which was the last one to support XFS) in January > > 2017. > > > > So, can we git rm {include,libxfs}/{irix,darwin,freebsd}.[ch] ? > > I sent out the same query in May 2017, > "RFC: removing non-linux platform support from xfsprogs" > > and nobody really chimed in to keep any of it. I'm happy to nuke it, > and if someone comes back with a tail of woe, we can always put it back > in place if it's deemed wise. > +1, FreeBSD never meant to actually have a 'fully supported' XFS port anyway, and nobody was interested in updating it to comply with their VFS changes between 9 and 10, so they just decided to drop it. And Irix is EOL, so I believe it's safe to remove it. -- Carlos