From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:41573 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750930AbeECJSH (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2018 05:18:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 11:18:06 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging Message-ID: <20180503091806.GA32180@amd> References: <20180425154602.GA8546@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180426061108.GB4977@amd> <4153280.6zxFApgOmi@merkaba> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4153280.6zxFApgOmi@merkaba> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu 2018-04-26 12:36:50, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Pavel Machek - 26.04.18, 08:11: > > On Wed 2018-04-25 08:46:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > Recently ncpfs got moved to staging. Also recently, we had some > > > fuzzer developers report bugs in hfs, which they deem a security > > > hole because Ubuntu attempts to automount an inserted USB device as > > > hfs. > >=20 > > We promise "no-regressions" for code in main repository, no such > > promise for staging. We have quite a lot of code without maintainer. > >=20 > > Moving code to staging means it will get broken -- staging was not > > designed for this. I believe moving anything there is bad idea. > >=20 > > Staging is for ugly code, not for code that needs new maintainter. >=20 > Good point. >=20 > Moving things in and out to some "unmaintained" directory=E2=80=A6 I am n= ot sure=20 > about that either. I tend to think that moving code around does not=20 > solve the underlying issue. >=20 > Which, according to what I got from Matthew, was that distributors=20 > enable just about every filesystem they can enable which lead to hfs=20 > being used for automounting an USB stick formatted with it. If distro's are shipping it, they are also willing to fix it. So =2E.. no need to drop the code just yet. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlrq084ACgkQMOfwapXb+vI0RgCdGQM/1OfUo5SKsCqPuq/o6IBY t2IAn3HRqsyXUzYaoKFuv2PdBBIFhbGH =dgPV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--