On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 03:54:03PM +0100, Jinpu Wang wrote: > > > +obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RNBD_CLIENT) += rnbd-client.o > > > +obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RNBD_SERVER) += rnbd-server.o > > > + > > > +-include $(src)/compat/compat.mk > > > > What is it? > > > > Thanks > quote from Roman > "' > Well, in our production we use same source code and in order not to spoil > sources with 'ifdef' macros for different kernel versions we use compat > layer, which obviously will never go upstream. This line is the only > clean way to keep sources always up-to-date with latest kernel and still > be compatible with what we have on our servers in production. > > '-' prefix at the beginning of the line tells make to ignore it if > file does not exist, so should not rise any error for compilation > against latest kernel. > > Here is an example of the compat layer for RNBD block device: > https://github.com/ionos-enterprise/ibnbd/tree/master/rnbd/compat > "' > > We will remove it also the one in the makefile for rtrs if we need to > send another round. Yes, remove it please. > > Thanks
