From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755278AbeDZLGS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2018 07:06:18 -0400 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]:53691 "EHLO outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755074AbeDZLGP (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2018 07:06:15 -0400 Subject: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? To: dsterba@suse.cz, Martin Steigerwald , Matthew Wilcox , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, Debian m68k References: <20180425154602.GA8546@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180425203029.GQ21272@twin.jikos.cz> <20180426025717.GA32430@bombadil.infradead.org> <1613268.lKBQxPXt8J@merkaba> <76ca15e2-7b43-8b02-43e1-9ee65ab85356@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20180426105940.smn3447igebe5r34@twin.jikos.cz> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:06:14 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180426105940.smn3447igebe5r34@twin.jikos.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 87.77.146.231 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/26/2018 12:59 PM, David Sterba wrote: >> The answer is that we are still very much actively using RDB and AFFS >> supoort in the Linux kernel and if you were to remove it, you would >> directly hit users. > > Based on that I think removing affs will not happen, but the upstream > maintenance status should be updated accordingly. As a fellow SUSE employee, I'm very happy to hear that someone from SUSE is picking up the work <3. FWIW, Andreas Schwab from SUSE maintains an internal port of openSUSE for m68k :). >> Exactly. It works fine as is: > ... >> There is nothing at the moment that needs fixing. > > So, I'm willing to act as upstream maintainer for affs, send pull > requests with fixes if you ever need that (unless you find someone > else). Thanks a thousand times. If we happen to meet at a SUSE event, I'll invite you to beverage of your choice ;-). Thanks! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913