From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com ([209.85.217.182]:53667 "EHLO mail-lb0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751658Ab3AXR4l (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:56:41 -0500 Received: by mail-lb0-f182.google.com with SMTP id gg6so7074719lbb.13 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:56:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <510175F7.5080806@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:57:11 +0100 From: Goffredo Baroncelli Reply-To: kreijack@inwind.it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Behrens CC: Eric Sandeen , Anand Jain , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, dsterba@suse.cz, gene@czarc.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c References: <1358928771-31960-1-git-send-email-anand.jain@oracle.com> <1358928771-31960-2-git-send-email-anand.jain@oracle.com> <5100BB01.3030408@redhat.com> <5100FDA3.3040907@giantdisaster.de> In-Reply-To: <5100FDA3.3040907@giantdisaster.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/24/2013 10:23 AM, Stefan Behrens wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:39:29 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> instead of renaming& keeping the btrfsctl.c copy > > There is a new momentum to improve the Btrfs-progs quality :) > > IMO, one step is to get rid of the legacy tools and sources. It wastes > time to maintain them and these old tools cause confusion. btrfsctl.c, > btrfs-vol.c and btrfs-show.c are not needed anymore. Please correct me > if there are plans to use these old tools in future Linux distributions. > The "btrfs" tool replaces the legacy "btrfsctl", "btrfs-vol" and > "btrfs-show" tools. Below, the usage text of the old tools is quoted. > All these tasks are also offered in the "btrfs" tool, and this tool is > the newer one. I fully agree: btrfsctl, btrfs-vol, btrfs-show are perfectly replaced by by btrfs. Moreover time to time the patches are more complex than the needing because exists these "legacy" programs. I checked the debian package, and to me seems that there is no need of {btrfsctl,btrfs-vol,btrfs-show} BR Goffredo -- gpg @keyserver.linux.it: Goffredo Baroncelli (kreijackATinwind.it> Key fingerprint BBF5 1610 0B64 DAC6 5F7D 17B2 0EDA 9B37 8B82 E0B5