linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1)

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Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:53:59 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, jffs-dev@...s.com,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1)

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:39:26 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.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.

It would be good to provide unignorable notice of this in 2.6.20.  Via a
loud printk, or perhaps even CONFIG_BROKEN or CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
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