From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HFSPLus driver for Linux 2.6.
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 06:03:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2004.02.06.05.03.51.679598@smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040205200217.360c51ab.akpm@osdl.org>
Hi, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dylan Griffiths <dylang+kernel@thock.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't remember where I grabbed this driver, I only know it's much
>> more current than the one at
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus.
>
> Sorry, that's a showstopper. We need to understand who the maintenance
> team is, and evaluate their preparedness to maintain this code long-term.
>
That probably was http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/. Their latest release
is from mid-December.
> We don't want to be adding yet another rarely-used filesystem which has no
> visible maintenance team.
>
The Mac-m68k and the Mac-PPC people would probably disagree about the
"rarely-used" part. I do agree that adding a filesystem, no matter how
widely used, without at least somebody to liaise between the kernel people
and the authors is a bad idea.
--
Matthias Urlichs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-06 5:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <402304F0.1070008@thock.com>
[not found] ` <20040205191527.4c7a488e.akpm@osdl.org>
2004-02-06 3:56 ` Dylan Griffiths
2004-02-06 4:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06 5:03 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2004-02-06 7:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-06 13:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-06 19:09 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-02-06 23:47 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-02-18 18:37 ` Updated HFSplus driver for 2.6.3 Dylan Griffiths
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