linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove obsolete EXT3 config options

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Message-ID: <20251014013634.GM354523@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:36:34 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lbulwahn@...hat.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove obsolete EXT3 config options

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 01:34:56PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Remove the obsolete EXT3 config options.
> 
> It would have been even better if all references in the kernel were updated
> as well, avoiding all the resulting boot failures when trying to boot "defconfig"
> images.

Oops.  Sorry, it didn't occur to me that there might be defconfig
referring to CONFIG_EXT3_FS.

I'll add patch to fix up the defconfigs, unless someone has taken care
of it already in their tree.

						- Ted