On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 21:00 +0000, alexander.le...@verizon.com wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:13:57PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > liblockdep hasn't been buildable since (I think) Linux 4.6. I sent > > Sasha fixes for that last June and he included these in a pull request > > to Ingo, but somehow they never reached mainline. Linux 4.8 broke > > liblockdep further, and I gave up packaging it for Debian. > > > > There have been no other changes to liblockdep since then, other than a > > general change in the tools/ directory. Sasha's address in MAINTAINERS > > is also out-of-date. > > > > Please either maintain liblockdep properly or delete it. We shouldn't > > keep code in the tree in a broken state. > > Hi Ben, > > I indeed received those patches and forwarded them on: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/17/1044 > > As well as an updated maintainers entry: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/29/431 > > But I failed to follow up on that and it seems to have fallen through the > cracks. > > I'll get it back into shape, sorry. > > I also don't expect many changes to liblockdep other than keeping it > buildable, > if there are any missing features or bugs you'd like to discuss I'd be happy > to > look into those.
I had some other fixes that I was waiting to send: https://sources.debian.net/src/linux/4.9.25-1/debian/patches/bugfix/all/lockdep-fix-oot-build.patch/ https://sources.debian.net/src/linux/4.9.25-1/debian/patches/bugfix/all/lockdep-fix-soname.patch/ https://sources.debian.net/src/linux/4.9.25-1/debian/patches/bugfix/all/tools-lib-lockdep-use-ldflags.patch/ Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.
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