From: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] gfs2 on-disk headers in user space
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:28:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F2BAF8.408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHc6FU62_oZPOvdvd81y2H5sLLzr78GrE-u8ErDrrwvbVUe-gA@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/09/15 12:02, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 2015-09-11 12:45 GMT+02:00 Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>:
>> Yes, I think ideally we should have a set of userspace structures to keep
>> things separate.
>
> Building gfs2-utils currently also depends on
> /usr/include/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h, so when building on an old system,
> some features will be disabled. It would be more useful to keep an
> up-to-date copy of that header in gfs2-utils: we have all the code to
> support all features in there anyway, and gfs2-utils needs to remain
> backwards compatible anyway.
That makes sense to me. I assume we would remove the #include
<linux/types.h> from gfs2_ondisk.h and replace it with our own user
space types header. I'm worried about clashes using the kernel type
names though, so we might need to process the header somehow to change them.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-11 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-09 15:55 [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 1/2] libgfs2: Add support for dirent.de_rahead Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-09-09 15:55 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 2/2] gfs2_edit: Include dirent.de_rahead in directory listings Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-09-09 16:27 ` Andrew Price
2015-09-10 11:07 ` Andrew Price
2015-09-10 12:51 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2015-09-10 22:04 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-09-10 22:05 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 1/2] gfs2: Fix printf format errors on x86 Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-09-10 22:05 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 2/2] gfs2_edit: Add attribute printf for print_gfs2 Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-09-11 10:45 ` Andrew Price
2015-09-11 10:45 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 2/2] gfs2_edit: Include dirent.de_rahead in directory listings Andrew Price
2015-09-11 11:02 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-09-11 11:28 ` Andrew Price [this message]
2015-09-11 11:40 ` [Cluster-devel] gfs2 on-disk headers in user space Andreas Grünbacher
2015-09-11 11:57 ` Andrew Price
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