From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:23:53 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 20/22] squashfs: Add xattr support In-Reply-To: References: <1433251718-3167-1-git-send-email-clayton.shotwell@rockwellcollins.com> <1433251718-3167-21-git-send-email-clayton.shotwell@rockwellcollins.com> <20150706121602.402373fc@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20150710222353.637179e9@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Clayton, On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:54:28 -0500, Clayton Shotwell wrote: > I would really like to know what I was thinking when I put this patch > together because you are completely correct on how terrible this is. I > looked back at it and I don't believe the host xattr support should be > enabled at all. There are too many host dependencies, unrelated to the > xattr package, that need to be met for this to work properly (think > extended attributes on the filesystem itself). I am going to drop the > host changes and only enable this for the target (where I am actually > looking to use it). No problem. However, I'm curious to know what is your use case: you are preparing a SquashFS image on your target? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com