Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265576AbTIJTR5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:17:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265627AbTIJTR4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:17:56 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:56848 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265576AbTIJTQO (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:16:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:16:07 +0100 From: Russell King To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: Linus Torvalds , Geert Uytterhoeven , Stephen Hemminger , jffs-dev@axis.com, Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs. Message-ID: <20030910201607.G30046@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Geert Uytterhoeven , Stephen Hemminger , jffs-dev@axis.com, Linux Kernel Development References: <20030910181847.GO454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030910190303.GP454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030910190303.GP454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk on Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:03:04PM +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Microsoft Outlook is vulnerable to viruses. See www.mutt.org for more details. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1094 Lines: 26 On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:03:04PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > a) you've snipped the critical part ;-) > b) nobody sane uses that beast these days > c) if somebody wants to grow a private patch - it's their time, > after all... > > Seriously, though, by now fs/jffs/* has only one real use - extracting > data from old filesystem. IIRC, there was even a talk about having it go > the way of ext and xiafs. He's dead, Jim... It isn't that dead - I get the occasional patch from people wanting to keep it working, although I really wish people would send them to dwmw2 rather than myself. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/ Linux kernel maintainer of: 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - 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/