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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
	jffs-dev@axis.com,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs.
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:16:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030910201607.G30046@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030910190303.GP454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk on Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:03:04PM +0100

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:03:04PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> 
> 	a) you've snipped the critical part ;-)
> 	b) nobody sane uses that beast these days
> 	c) if somebody wants to grow a private patch - it's their time,
> after all...
> 
> Seriously, though, by now fs/jffs/* has only one real use - extracting
> data from old filesystem.  IIRC, there was even a talk about having it go
> the way of ext and xiafs.  He's dead, Jim...

It isn't that dead - I get the occasional patch from people wanting to keep
it working, although I really wish people would send them to dwmw2 rather
than myself.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)	http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/
Linux kernel maintainer of:
  2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-10 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-09 21:44 Stephen Hemminger
2003-09-10  2:40 ` viro
2003-09-10 17:14   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-10 18:18     ` viro
2003-09-10 18:54       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-10 19:03         ` viro
2003-09-10 19:16           ` Russell King [this message]
2003-09-11 16:50             ` Jörn Engel

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