New XFS git tree on oss.sgi.com

[Niv Sardi]

Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:11:33PM +1100, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
>
>> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> > Looking over the -dev tree, can you please revert
>> > 
>> > 	http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xfs/xfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=c79ae33eebac1c15aa435fb77362fdc5eff2be4d> > 
>> > All this wasn't needed in the old ptrace tree either, no need to carry it forward.
>> 
>> Is this code needed for the BSD port?
>
> According to Russell it may be need, but he'll probably need a newer
> version than the one check-ed in once he resyncs.  And he'll have his
> own support dir with the rest of the BSD code.
>
>> There may be other code that can be removed too.  We moved a lot of the code
>> that existed only in ptools into the xfs-dev branch so that branch and ptools
>> are in sync.  This allows us to automatically merge changes back to the old
>> ptools tree (yes it still lives).  Any merge failures will now be handled
>> between git branches and not between different scms.
>
> The xfs-dev also fortunately doesn't have the modular quota code.  So
> for both these I'd suggest removing them from the ptools tree, too.
>
>
> Also
> http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xfs/xfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=ca830fdf6231d0683f4ea4e9223e234c3a509063doesn't seem to be needed.  None of those symbols seems to be used by
> either dmapi or xfsidbg, the only two modules using xfs symbols in the
> tree.

That's exactly why it's there, the revertion is actually moving from
what was in ptools to something sane.
-- 
Niv Sardi