From: Kyle McMartin <kmcmarti@redhat.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: sandeen@redhat.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: don't assume getdents exists
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 18:19:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131106231954.GD29593@redacted.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131106231713.GK6188@dastard>
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:17:13AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > I'll try to clean it up and send a patch for that, using getdents64
> > wherever possible, and handling the fallback at runtime instead of
> > making things all ifdeffy... Just wanted to get things building in the
> > mean time. (Oh man the coding style there is janky...)
>
> I'd factor and reformat the code using the normal kernel style. :)
>
> And to avoid ifdef hackery and runtime fallbacks, I'd add an
> autoconf macro to determine which getdents call is supported, and
> then only compile in the relevant function and not have to care
> about runtime fallbacks.
>
> But that may end up more complex and more work than you had in mind,
> so feel free to ignore my suggestions ;)
>
Good thinking... I'll poke at it.
Thanks Dave!
Kyle
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-06 21:36 [PATCH] xfsdump: don't assume getdents exists Kyle McMartin
2013-11-06 22:48 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-06 22:56 ` Kyle McMartin
2013-11-06 23:17 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-06 23:19 ` Kyle McMartin [this message]
2013-11-07 6:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07 7:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-10 14:46 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-12-10 19:50 ` Kyle McMartin
2014-03-22 5:12 ` Kyle McMartin
2014-03-22 8:53 ` Dave Chinner
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