Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:06:39 -0600 | From | "Josh Boyer" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1) |
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On 12/12/06, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > > On 12/12/06, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: > >> I have created the 'kill-jffs' branch of > >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git that > >> removes fs/jffs. > >> > >> I argue that you can count the users (who aren't on 2.4) on one hand, > >> and developers don't seem to have cared for it in ages. > >> > >> People are already talking about jffs2 replacements, so I propose we zap > >> jffs in 2.6.21. > > > > I'm usually all for killing broken code, but JFFS isn't really broken > > is it? Is there some burden it's causing by being in the kernel at > > the moment? > > It's always been the case that we remove Linux kernel code when the > number of users (and more importantly, developers) drops to near-nil. > > Every line of code is one more place you have to audit when code > changes, one more place to update each time the VFS API is touched.
Ok, I can buy that.
> > When it's more likely to get struck by lightning than encounter > filesystem X on a random hard drive in the field, filesystem X need not > be in the kernel.
Or flash chip in this case ;)
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