From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove ext3 filesystem driver Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 08:09:04 -0700 Message-ID: <55A67790.80802@infradead.org> References: <1436955987-7305-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.com> <20150715141836.GA18400@thunk.org> <55A676BF.8020903@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Theodore Ts'o , Jan Kara , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , Andreas Dilger , Jens Axboe Return-path: In-Reply-To: <55A676BF.8020903@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org 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