JFFS2 SUMMARY prior to Linux 3.9

Wed Oct 2 14:22:27 EDT 2013

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 10:57:04AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ricard Wanderlof
> <ricard.wanderlof at axis.com> wrote:
> > I've noticed that JFFS2 summary has been relieved of it's EXPERIMENTAL
> > status since Linux 3.9 . But was it stable enough before then as well? -
> > often the EXPERIMENTAL property lingers on longer that it really needs to.
> 
> AFAIK, JFFS2 hasn't changed much for many releases, so its current
> status pretty well reflects its status for many previous releases.
> 
> Regarding the EXPERIMENTAL status; this was changed without CC'ing the
> MTD list (although David was CC'd, it seems) in commit:
> 
> commit cf98c5e56807af7c793497bbd0446f71c383ffd5
> Author: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> Date:   Wed Jan 16 18:54:12 2013 -0800
> 
>     fs/jffs2: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
> 
> Judging by the commit description, this change just represents a
> change in attitude toward the CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Kconfig option
> rather than any particular judgment of JFFS2 summary support.

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL was removed from the entire kernel, as it really
didn't mean anything anymore, and hadn't for _years_.

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