linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] qnx4: remove write support

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Message-Id: <20090824131547.a8c268fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:15:47 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	anders@...rsen.net (Anders Larsen)
Cc:	trivial@...nel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qnx4: remove write support

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:56:45 +0200 (CEST)
anders@...rsen.net (Anders Larsen) wrote:

> To: trivial@...nel.org

This isn't a trivial patch!

> Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] qnx4: remove write support
> Date: 	Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:56:45 +0200 (CEST)
> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org
> 
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> qnx4 write support has never been fully implemented, is broken since the
> dawn of time and hasn't been actively developed since before git history
> started.
> 
> Instead of letting it further bitrot and complicate API transition (like
> the new truncate code) remove it.

Your email client mangles the patch in mysterious ways.  I suggest that
you email it to yourself and check that it applies.

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