| To: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: RFC: dropping IRIX support in xfsprogs |
| From: | Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:59:14 +1000 |
| Cc: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| Delivered-to: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20160818174742.GA14464@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| References: | <20160818174742.GA14464@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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