On 12 September 2013 17:17, Tim Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/12/2013 08:47 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >> On 12 September 2013 16:37, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Debian has removed reiserfs support from its kernel packages and its >>> installer (http://bugs.debian.org/717517). I don't really want to keep >>> maintaining it without Debian; for instance it would mean adding support >>> for http://bugs.debian.org/696123 as an Ubuntu-specific patch once we >>> have the underpinnings done. Does anyone feel desperately that we have >>> to keep this or shall I just go ahead and drop it? >>> >> >> I've informally raised this with #ubuntu-kernel team on irc / >> one-to-one conversions as well. I think the rough consensus was that >> we should follow suite and also drop reiserfs support from both our >> kernel configuration and installer. >> Not sure if the kernel configuration should be kept in-tact because of >> hardware enablement stack backports, I would hope that it wouldn't be >> necessary. >> Ditto other kernel modules that were dropped from the debian kernel >> config at the same time as reiserfs. >> >> I agree that reiserfs support should simply be dropped, and ideally >> should have been done earlier in the cycle when the same change was >> done in debian. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dmitrijs. >> > > As was pointed out on IRC this is the original email from Ben Hutchings > regarding his decision to remove reiserfs from kernel udebs: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.debian.maint.boot/QO187Szy2_o > > I'm not really in favor of entirely dropping reiserfs support from the > kernel, e.g., CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=n. Doubtless, there are still folks out > there using it that would be pretty annoyed on upgrading to find they > can no longer access their file system. > > I am, however, OK with dropping resierfs from any udebs that we produce.
Indeed it looks like I misinterpreted Ben's email, since CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m is still build by the linux kernel in Debian. And it really is just about the installer/udebs. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
