From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751680AbaLQCqJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:46:09 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:49256 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751121AbaLQCqI (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:46:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:46:02 +0000 From: Al Viro To: nick Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, fabf@skynet.be, tytso@mit.edu, sasha.levin@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Remove cramfs source code from mainline kernel? Message-ID: <20141217024602.GG22149@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <5490E6F8.4030207@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5490E6F8.4030207@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 09:14:16PM -0500, nick wrote: > Greetings Andrew and others, > I am wondering as cramfs as been marked obsolete for a while why haven't it been removed? If one of the maintainers can explain why that would be greatly be appreciated. Otherwise I am recommending if there are no good reasons we should remove cramfs from main line as it seems to be only used on systems before squashfs was made main line and well supported from my knowledge. > Cheers, > Nick :) a) learn to use line breaks b) what do we win from removing it? If it starts becoming inconvenient to maintain, it might make sense to consider removal, but as it is... What, somebody has slapped a couple of F-words in there? "FIXME", that is... Al, seriously tempted to add /* FIXME. FIXME. FIXME. DO NOT remove that comment - it serves a very important purpose by tormenting a certain fetishist */ on top of a bunch of files in fs/*.c, just to see what effect will it have...