Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752787AbbGOPJK (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:09:10 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:37790 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751961AbbGOPJI (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:09:08 -0400 Message-ID: <55A67790.80802@infradead.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 08:09:04 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Jan Kara , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , Andreas Dilger , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove ext3 filesystem driver References: <1436955987-7305-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.com> <20150715141836.GA18400@thunk.org> <55A676BF.8020903@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <55A676BF.8020903@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1621 Lines: 46 On 07/15/15 08:05, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 07/15/15 07:18, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:26:24PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: >>> >>> so I have created this patch set which removes ext3 driver (and some related support >>> code) from the kernel. See changelog of patch 2/3 for more details. If noone objects, >>> I will queue the series in my tree for the next merge window. >>> >>> Jens, are you OK with me merging patch 3/3 or do you want me to send it to you once >>> the first two patches get merged? >>> >>> Ted, this also touches ext4 driver so that it always handles ext3 filesystems so ack >>> from you would be nice. >> >> Got tired of maintaining ext3, eh? :-) >> >> As a minor nit, I wonder if it's worth while to put in some hackery in >> fs/Kconfig so that if someone only has CONFIG_FS_EXT3 defined, but not >> CONFIG_FS_EXT4 defined, that it will automatically enable >> CONFIG_FS_EXT4 instead? Otherwise someone upgrading their kernel >> might accidentally end up getting a non-functional kernel. >> >> i.e., something like this? (not tested!) >> >> config FS_EXT3 >> def_bool n >> select FS_EXT4 > > > Yes, if someone is going to force us to use ext4, some automation would > be helpful. > > Thanks, > Are there any other changes required, e.g., to /etc/fstab ? btw, this looks like an April 1 joke to me. -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/