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. rtg -- Tim Gardner [email protected] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
