[PATCH] arm,arm64: Conditionalize bio_vec usage

[Thierry Reding]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:40:43AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Commit 3d1975b57097 (arm,arm64: do not always merge bio_vec if we are
> > running on Xen) unconditionally added code using the bio_vec typedefs
> > which causes build errors on configurations where CONFIG_BLOCK is
> > disabled.
> >
> > Add #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK protection to fix this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> 
> I commented on the offending patch (which is a good way to make people
> aware of it instead of posting standalone patches like you did),

The standalone patch got Stefano's attention, so I don't see why you
think it was a bad idea.

I don't expect such patches to always be applied as is. If they aren't
proper fixes and someone comes up with a much better way (which they did
in this case), then I'm just as happy. Also it actually takes about the
same amount of time to write up a patch, compile-test it and send it out
than it takes to complain about the breakage by mail. I also find it
slightly more helpful than just telling somebody that their patch broke
something.

Perhaps this is a bad example because it's really a trivial issue, but
if it were anything slightly more complex, then sending a patch for it
may save some maintainer the additional work. I don't immediately see
what's wrong with that. Perhaps you'd care to elaborate.

> and Stefano posted patch that declares struct bio_vec; instead.
> 
> Either way is ok with me, I'd generally prefer to avoid the ifdefs though.

I agree, that's much nicer than the #ifdef.

Thierry
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