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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: check for dmapi headers
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:19:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49037F50.3010400@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081025201840.GB28002@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:18:35PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> I'm no autoconf wizard, but I think this does the trick to allow
>> xfstests build to succeed when dmapi headers are missing, as
>> they probably will be for any distro that doesn't ship with
>> dmapi in the kernel, or dmapi userspace.
>>
>> AFAIK the dmapi-related tests all fail gracefully with "not run."
> 
> Looks sane to me, although the dmapi library can of course be shipped
> without kernel support - it's just rather useless that way :)
> 

true, but very, very little motivation for that :)

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-25 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-25 18:18 [PATCH] xfstests: check for dmapi headers Eric Sandeen
2008-10-25 20:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-25 20:19   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-10-25 23:32     ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-26  3:01       ` Eric Sandeen

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