Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/1] Allow the building of VirtFS to be disabled

[Meador Inge]

Ping... Any comments on the v3 patch?

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-02/msg01236.html

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Meador Inge <address@hidden> 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
>
> * Changes from v2
>  - Use 'test "$foo" = yes && test "$bar" = yes' instead of
>    '"$foo" = "yes" -a "$bar" = "yes"'.
> * Changes from v1
>  - Simplify the configure logic and support the standard behavior
>    of defaulting virtfs="".  Changes suggested by Peter Maydell.
>
> Meador Inge (1):
>  ./configure: add option for disabling VirtFS
>
>  Makefile  |    2 ++
>  configure |   25 +++++++++++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.7.7.6
>
>



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