Re: [PATCH 0/7] arch/*: config: Remove ReiserFS from defconfig

Peter Lafreniere
2023-09-19T00:00:54Z

On Monday, September 18th, 2023 at 19:41, Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 05:56:09PM +0000, Peter Lafreniere wrote:
>
> > ReiserFS has been considered deprecated for 19 months since commit
> > eb103a51640e ("reiserfs: Deprecate reiserfs"). However, there are
> > several architectures that still build it into their defconfig kernels.
> >
> > As ReiserFS will be removed in 2025, delete all ReiserFS-related options
> > from defconfig files before the filesystem's removal.
>
>
> This is essentially equivalent to deleting the filesystem now. Why do
> this? Is there such a hurry?

This is not equivalent to deleting the filesystem. The filesystem can still
be configured into kernels, and few distros use a defconfig kernel anyway.

>
>
> Segher

Cheers,

Peter Lafreniere
<peter@n8pjl.ca>