Hi,
2017-05-18 18:29 GMT+02:00 Enric Balletbo i Serra
<enric.balle...@collabora.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> So here is a new version of the patches to be reviewed, this time as
> suggested by Alasdair the patches are reworked to match with the new
> dmsetup bootformat feature [1]. These patches are not reviewed yet but
> the format was discussed in the IRC and was suggested to send the
> kernel patches in parallel.
>
> Changes since v6:
> - Add a new function to issue the equivalent of a DM ioctl programatically.
> - Use the new ioctl interface to create the devices.
> - Use a comma-delimited and semi-colon delimited dmsetup-like commands.
>
> Changes since v5:
> - https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2016-February/msg00112.html
>
> [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2017-May/msg00047.html
>
> Wating for your feedback,
>
> Enric Balletbo i Serra (1):
> dm ioctl: add a device mapper ioctl function.
>
> Will Drewry (1):
> init: add support to directly boot to a mapped device
>
> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +
> Documentation/device-mapper/dm-boot.txt | 65 ++++
> drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 45 +++
> include/linux/device-mapper.h | 6 +
> init/Makefile | 1 +
> init/do_mounts.c | 1 +
> init/do_mounts.h | 10 +
> init/do_mounts_dm.c | 459
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 9 files changed, 591 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/device-mapper/dm-boot.txt
> create mode 100644 init/do_mounts_dm.c
>
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Rebasing the patches against current linux-next I just noticied that
there is a build error due commit
commit e516db4f676ac88c7c7f698f8047178e8accc3b8
Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com>
Date: Fri May 5 11:12:52 2017 -0700
dm ioctl: add a new DM_DEV_ARM_POLL ioctl
So I'll send v8 to fix this.
Best regards,
Enric
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