[sheepdog] Issues about setup

hujianyang hujianyang at huawei.com
Tue Jan 20 04:00:53 CET 2015


On 2015/1/20 10:49, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> At Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:46:38 +0800,
> hujianyang wrote:
>>
>> On 2015/1/20 10:32, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
>>>> I did a little change and it compiles OK. But UINT*_C are widely
>>>> used in sheepdog_proto.h so maybe a large-scale modification is
>>>> needed?
>>>
>>> Cc-ing Alexander. The above UINT*_C macro problem is solved by the
>>> recent patch of Alexander. But the kstrtoul() problem still
>>> remains. If you can create a patch for it, I'll apply it.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, kernel modules should be changed besides different kernel
>>>> versions. How about separating kernel module code from userspace
>>>> sheepdog package?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The main interfaces for modules provided by linux kernel seem to be
>>> (almost) stable. If we can avoid to use (few) unstable interface,
>>> separating it from our repository isn't required, I think.
>>>
>>
>> Agree!
>>
>>>>
>>>> By the way, there are too many log messages while using sheepdog
>>>> device. Can we stop its printing?
>>>
>>> I don't have time to maintain sbd. If you can post a patch for
>>> reducing message, I'll apply.
>>
>> Yes, I'll do this.
> 
> Sorry, our converstation is interleaving... I created and posted a
> patch for it. But feel free to post your patch. If you want to join
> development of sheepdog, it will be a good practice :) I'll discard my
> patch.
>

Oh, Never mind~!

I think I'll working on sheepdog for a long time. There must be lots
of opportunities.

I'm not a person who just ask but do not contribute.

Thanks your great help again~!
Hu




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