From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:54:34 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch fs-cleanup In-Reply-To: <8739z5kmmy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <8739z5kmmy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20100409145434.3fd2aa6f@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:20:37 +0200 Peter Korsgaard wrote: > Thomas> This patchset implements a major rework of the code that > Thomas> generates the root filesystem generation. It is part of a more > Thomas> general work that aims at cleaning up the contents of the > Thomas> target/ directory. > > Thomas> Each patch has a description detailing its changes but here is > Thomas> the list of the major steps that this patch set goes through : > > Looks very good, thanks! Thanks. As I said, there are probably some issues left here and there, but that's not the scariest part of the target/ directory cleanup :-) > The squashfs 4.0 filesystem exists for 1 year now, so it's quite new > (and tied to kernel versions) - Aren't we leaving people with older > kernels out in the cold? > > Maybe now is the time to get rid of the old version, I don't know - But > 3.4 was not marked as deprecated (only recent) in 2010.02. As discussed on IRC, I've sent a new pull request for my "squashfs3" branch which re-introduces squashfs 3.x support, marked as BR2_DEPRECATED. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com