From: Meador Inge <meadori@codesourcery.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/1] Allow the building of VirtFS to be disabled
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:25:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3447C9.7030800@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87liodivvw.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 02/08/2012 02:15 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:44:05 -0600, Meador Inge <meadori@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> There have been reports [1, 2] where folks have had issues building
>> VirtFS and the virtio backend on older systems. I personally saw
>> problems due to the use of features (struct statfs f_frsize field,
>> fdopendir, O_NOATIME) in this code that are not available on much older
>> Linux systems. Given, the system I ran into this on is ancient (RH8 sysroot),
>> but I still need to build QEMU on it nonetheless.
>>
>> This patch adds a new configure option for disabling the building of
>> VirtFS all together. Tested by building with and without --disable-virtfs
>> on older (RH8 sysroot) and newer systems (x64 Fedora 16).
>>
>> [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-12/msg00171.html
>> [2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-02/msg00404.html
>>
>> Meador Inge (1):
>> ./configure: add option for disabling VirtFS
>>
>> Makefile | 4 ++++
>> configure | 16 +++++++++++++---
>> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> I like the patch because it help to get qemu build on platforms where
> the build failures are only due to virtfs. VirtFS do depend on some of
> the recent linux APIs, so sometime we do break build on old Linux
> distros.
Great. Thanks for the review. Can someone commit this for me?
> Anthony any objection here ?
>
> -aneesh
>
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Meador Inge
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-09 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-07 20:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/1] Allow the building of VirtFS to be disabled Meador Inge
2012-02-07 20:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] ./configure: add option for disabling VirtFS Meador Inge
2012-02-09 22:39 ` Peter Maydell
2012-02-10 0:49 ` Meador Inge
2012-02-08 8:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/1] Allow the building of VirtFS to be disabled Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-02-08 10:14 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-02-09 22:25 ` Meador Inge [this message]
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