Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, andXTENSA

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Sep 08 2013 - 22:30:13 EST


On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 07:48:51AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:03:00PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >> Unfortunately, LUSTRE can only be built as module, so there is no
> >> easy fix.
> >
> > Can't we just export the functions for those arches? Surely lutre
> > isn't the first/only driver that needs this?
>
> It's simply necessary to keep up to date: we can't keep building new
> arches since the initial cost can be quite high.

What do you mean by this? What "initial cost"? You should be able to
cross-compile almost all arches on your desktop machine today with the
compilers we have on kernel.org. If I can get them set up and working,
they can't be that hard for anyone else :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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