Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9] block: Drop unmaintained 'archipelago' driver

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 03/08 21:18, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 08.03.2017 21:09, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 03/08/2017 02:05 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
> >> On 08.03.2017 21:02, Eric Blake wrote:
> >>> The driver has failed to build since commit da34e65, in qemu 2.6,
> >>> due to a missing include of qapi/error.h for error_setg().
> >>> Since no one has complained in three releases, it is easier to
> >>> remove the dead code than to keep it around, especially since it
> >>> is not being built by default and therefore prone to bitrot.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> My proposed alternative for Max's "block/archipelago: Make it compile"
> >>>
> >>>  qapi/block-core.json             |   33 +-
> >>>  block/archipelago.c              | 1079 --------------------------------------
> >>>  MAINTAINERS                      |    8 -
> >>>  block/Makefile.objs              |    2 -
> >>>  configure                        |   43 --
> >>>  tests/qemu-iotests/025           |    2 +-
> >>>  tests/qemu-iotests/common        |    6 -
> >>>  tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter |    4 +-
> >>>  tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc     |    8 -
> >>>  9 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1181 deletions(-)
> >>>  delete mode 100644 block/archipelago.c
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> >>
> >> But I'd like someone to confirm that I'm not the only one who can't
> >> compile archipelago. ;-)
> > 
> > With my proposed patch not installed, I tried:
> > 
> > ./config.status --enable-archipelago
> > 
> > but got the error:
> > 
> > ERROR: User requested feature Archipelago backend support
> >        configure was not able to find it.
> >        Install libxseg devel
> > 
> > 
> > I don't see libxseg-devel available for Fedora; where does one get it to
> > even attempt compilation?
> 
> I got it from https://github.com/grnet/libxseg, and got it to compile by
> removing all "python" instances from CMakeLists.txt (including the
> find_program() blocks).

Well, if a dependent library is not found in any mainstream repo (including user
contributed repos such as AUR and copr), I'm all for not maintaining it in QEMU.

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>