Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1)

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On 12/12/06, Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
Josh Boyer wrote:
> On 12/12/06, Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have created the 'kill-jffs' branch of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git that
>> removes fs/jffs.
>>
>> I argue that you can count the users (who aren't on 2.4) on one hand,
>> and developers don't seem to have cared for it in ages.
>>
>> People are already talking about jffs2 replacements, so I propose we zap
>> jffs in 2.6.21.
>
> I'm usually all for killing broken code, but JFFS isn't really broken
> is it?  Is there some burden it's causing by being in the kernel at
> the moment?

It's always been the case that we remove Linux kernel code when the
number of users (and more importantly, developers) drops to near-nil.

Every line of code is one more place you have to audit when code
changes, one more place to update each time the VFS API is touched.

Ok, I can buy that.


When it's more likely to get struck by lightning than encounter
filesystem X on a random hard drive in the field, filesystem X need not
be in the kernel.

Or flash chip in this case ;)

josh
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