Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752085Ab3IICaI (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Sep 2013 22:30:08 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53000 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751364Ab3IICaH (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Sep 2013 22:30:07 -0400 Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 19:33:11 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Ramkumar Ramachandra Cc: Guenter Roeck , LKML , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Peng Tao , Peng Tao Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA Message-ID: <20130909023311.GB5329@kroah.com> References: <1378688580-11935-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20130909015945.GA4029@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1022 Lines: 25 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/