Re: small cleanups to help code sharing with xfsprogs

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 03:52:33PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 05:18:25PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > this series has a few trivial cleanups and code moves that help
> > sharing more code with xfsprogs.
> 
> Hrmm.  This is a somewhat different approach than what Chris Wedgwood
> did for his log port to userspace.

Well, that seems to have been an AI slop dump without any further
engagement from the LLM-herder, so I'm not sure it matters.

But it also is a bit of a different thing.  This series tries to reduce
the kernel/user libxfs differences, and reusing whatever we can from
the kernel helps with that.  What we do about the log becomes relevant
if/when we want to update that or share more.  My previously stated
opinion is that splitting a single kernel code base into two libraries,
which then generally are linked into the same programs again is not
helpful.  But someone comes up with a design that actually makes it
work painlessly I would not complain.  In the meantime I'd improve
the maintainability of libxfs without touching the logging code at all.