From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, allison.henderson@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/17] libfrog: move the GETFSMAP definitions into libfrog
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 09:09:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220207170913.GA8313@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220207010541.GE59729@dread.disaster.area>
On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 12:05:41PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 04:36:18PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 05:18:12PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > > On 1/19/22 6:21 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> > > >
> > > > Move our private copy of the GETFSMAP definition into a libfrog header
> > > > file that (preferentially) uses the system header files. We have no
> > > > business shipping kernel headers in the xfslibs package, but this shim
> > > > is still needed to build fully functional xfsprogs on old userspace.
> > >
> > > Hm. Fine, but I wonder if we can get a bit more intentional about how
> > > we handle this kind of thing, I understand why we copy this stuff into
> > > xfsprogs early, but then we never know how to get rid of it.
> > >
> > > Do we /need/ to build fully functional xfsprogs on old userspace?
> > > (really: systems with old kernel headers?) How far back do we go,
> > > I wonder? Anyway...
> >
> > TBH we could probably get rid of these entirely, assuming nobody is
> > building xfsprogs with old kernel headers for a system with a newer
> > kernel?
>
> Just fiddle the autoconf rules to refuse to build if the system
> headers we need aren't present. It just means that build systems
> need to have the userspace they intend to target installed in the
> build environment.
GETFSMAP premiered in 4.12, so I'm going to take this response (and the
lack of any others) as a sign that I can respin this patch to require
recent kernel headers instead of providing our own copy.
--D
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-07 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-20 0:21 [PATCHSET 00/17] xfsprogs: various 5.15 fixes Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 0:21 ` [PATCH 01/17] libxcmd: use emacs mode for command history editing Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 0:21 ` [PATCH 02/17] libxfs: shut down filesystem if we xfs_trans_cancel with deferred work items Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-04 21:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-02-04 21:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 0:21 ` [PATCH 03/17] libxfs: don't leave dangling perag references from xfs_buf Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-04 22:05 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:21 ` [PATCH 04/17] libfrog: move the GETFSMAP definitions into libfrog Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-04 23:18 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-02-05 0:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-07 1:05 ` Dave Chinner
2022-02-07 17:09 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2022-02-07 21:32 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-02-10 3:33 ` Dave Chinner
2022-02-08 16:46 ` [PATCH v1.1 04/17] libfrog: always use the kernel GETFSMAP definitions Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-25 22:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 05/17] misc: add a crc32c self test to mkfs and repair Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-04 23:23 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 06/17] libxfs-apply: support filterdiff >= 0.4.2 only Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 07/17] xfs_db: fix nbits parameter in fa_ino[48] functions Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-25 21:45 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 08/17] xfs_repair: explicitly cast resource usage counts in do_warn Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-25 21:46 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 09/17] xfs_repair: explicitly cast directory inode numbers " Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-25 21:48 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 10/17] xfs_repair: fix indentation problems in upgrade_filesystem Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-25 21:53 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 11/17] xfs_repair: update secondary superblocks after changing features Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-25 21:57 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 12/17] xfs_scrub: report optional features in version string Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 1:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-20 1:28 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 1:32 ` [PATCH v2 " Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-25 22:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-02-26 0:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-26 2:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-26 2:53 ` [PATCH v3 " Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-28 21:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 13/17] mkfs: prevent corruption of passed-in suboption string values Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 14/17] mkfs: add configuration files for the last few LTS kernels Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 0:22 ` [PATCH 15/17] mkfs: document sample configuration file location Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 0:23 ` [PATCH 16/17] mkfs: add a config file for x86_64 pmem filesystems Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-25 22:21 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-02-26 2:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-26 2:52 ` [PATCH v2 " Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-28 21:37 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-20 0:23 ` [PATCH 17/17] mkfs: enable inobtcount and bigtime by default Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-25 22:22 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-01-28 22:44 ` [PATCH 18/17] xfs_scrub: fix reporting if we can't open raw block devices Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-31 12:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-26 2:54 ` [PATCH 19/17] mkfs: increase default log size for new (aka bigtime) filesystems Darrick J. Wong
2022-02-26 21:37 ` Dave Chinner
2022-02-28 23:22 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-03-01 0:42 ` Dave Chinner
2022-03-01 2:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-03-01 15:55 ` Brian Foster
2022-03-01 3:10 ` Dave Chinner
2022-02-28 21:44 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-03-01 2:21 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-03-01 2:44 ` Eric Sandeen
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