From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m9PKJT63028994 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:19:29 -0700 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9D64F147F662 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id dlx1DgTSXXpGhe4G for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49037F50.3010400@sandeen.net> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:19:28 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: check for dmapi headers References: <490362FB.5000300@sandeen.net> <20081025201840.GB28002@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20081025201840.GB28002@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs-oss 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