On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Jan de Groot
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: arch-dev-public-bounces@archlinux.org [mailto:arch-dev-public- bounces@archlinux.org] Namens Simo Leone Verzonden: woensdag 26 maart 2008 10:10 Aan: arch-dev-public@archlinux.org Onderwerp: Re: [arch-dev-public] kernel26 unionfs/aufs conflict
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:34:37AM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Hi to reconsider, you were the guys that wanted those filesystem stuff
in the
kernel, I just add/fix hardware support which doesn't conflict with such stuff, so figure out how to fix it send patches that it works for the stuff you need it. Checkout Aufs from latest CVS and try to combine it that it works. I don't use any of this filesystems.
Ok, let's assume for right now that we aren't going to drop either of them. Would you, as the kernel maintainer, prefer the in-tree solution of effectively aliasing the function names; or the out-of-tree solution of patching aufs to deal with unionfs's function names? Either will work just fine.
I would prefer to have these symbols exported only once and patch the package that needs these kernel symbols with a different name. Yes, it's a little bit more work for the external module maintainer, but it keeps our kernel cleaner that way.
Agreed. Lets patch aufs if we can to use the unionfs symbol.