On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:47:11AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > I've tried to go through and convert most of the easier ones, and there > are only a handful of remainders, many of which seem pretty straightforward > and I'll probably end up doing most of them. > > Reiserfs I think is the biggest one left out, and I hope the maintainers > will help with that. > > > What about supporting out-of-tree code? Should we provide the backwards > compatibility for a few releases? The good thing about it is that it will > run noticably slower (but deadlock free!), so if anyone cares, they will > have incentive to update :)
No, definitly not. We don't keep a lot of junk for out of tree users around. Especially as the whole generic_file* mechanisms is pretty deeply interwinded with filesystems and VM code and shouldn't really be used out of tree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
