linux-kernel - Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?

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Date:   Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:06:14 +0200
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     dsterba@...e.cz, Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
        Debian m68k <debian-68k@...ts.debian.org>
Subject: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?

On 04/26/2018 12:59 PM, David Sterba wrote:
>> The answer is that we are still very much actively using RDB and AFFS
>> supoort in the Linux kernel and if you were to remove it, you would
>> directly hit users.
> 
> Based on that I think removing affs will not happen, but the upstream
> maintenance status should be updated accordingly.

As a fellow SUSE employee, I'm very happy to hear that someone
from SUSE is picking up the work <3. FWIW, Andreas Schwab from
SUSE maintains an internal port of openSUSE for m68k :).

>> Exactly. It works fine as is:
> ...
>> There is nothing at the moment that needs fixing.
> 
> So, I'm willing to act as upstream maintainer for affs, send pull
> requests with fixes if you ever need that (unless you find someone
> else).

Thanks a thousand times. If we happen to meet at a SUSE event,
I'll invite you to beverage of your choice ;-).

Thanks!
Adrian

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