On Tue 15-04-25 09:51:37, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Both the hfs and hfsplus filesystem have been orphaned since at least
> 2014, i.e., over 10 years. It's time to remove them from the kernel as
> they're exhibiting more and more issues and no one is stepping up to
> fixing them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good. And I agree hopefully it sparks interest in the maintainership
because this is not completely useless filesystem:
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Honza
> ---
> fs/hfs/super.c | 2 ++
> fs/hfsplus/super.c | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/hfs/super.c b/fs/hfs/super.c
> index fe09c2093a93..4413cd8feb9e 100644
> --- a/fs/hfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/hfs/super.c
> @@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ static int hfs_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
> {
> struct hfs_sb_info *hsb;
>
> + pr_warn("The hfs filesystem is deprecated and scheduled to be removed from the kernel in 2025\n");
> +
> hsb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hfs_sb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!hsb)
> return -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/super.c b/fs/hfsplus/super.c
> index 948b8aaee33e..58cff4b2a3b4 100644
> --- a/fs/hfsplus/super.c
> +++ b/fs/hfsplus/super.c
> @@ -656,6 +656,8 @@ static int hfsplus_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
> {
> struct hfsplus_sb_info *sbi;
>
> + pr_warn("The hfsplus filesystem is deprecated and scheduled to be removed from the kernel in 2025\n");
> +
> sbi = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hfsplus_sb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!sbi)
> return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.47.2
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
