Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: dsterba@suse.cz, Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org,
	Debian m68k <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:06:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dedb4126-1b7f-2ad5-07ce-307de6cbf422@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180426105940.smn3447igebe5r34@twin.jikos.cz>

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

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