Re: [DRBD-user] building v9

2020-12-10 Thread Eddie Chapman
On 10/12/2020 12:07, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: Hi Pierre, As much as we may want it, DRBD's coccinelle-based compat system is not a general purpose solution. We can't guarantee that DRBD will build for any given kernel – there is simply too much going on in the block layer and other parts

Re: [DRBD-user] building v9

2020-12-10 Thread Yannis Milios
Thanks Christoph for the very clear explanation, I think that it was a piece which was missing for all of us! B.R. Yannis On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 12:07, Christoph Böhmwalder < christoph.boehmwal...@linbit.com> wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > As much as we may want it, DRBD's coccinelle-based compat

Re: [DRBD-user] building v9

2020-12-10 Thread Christoph Böhmwalder
Hi Pierre, As much as we may want it, DRBD's coccinelle-based compat system is not a general purpose solution. We can't guarantee that DRBD will build for any given kernel – there is simply too much going on in the block layer and other parts of the kernel, so that we cannnot possibly cover

Re: [DRBD-user] building v9

2020-12-10 Thread Yannis Milios
I tested building on 5.8.0-31-generic (Ubuntu Focal) and I'm getting the same error as you do, so I'd assume that drbd cannot build against that kernel at the moment. I have reverted back to 5.4.0-48-generic which seems to be ok. On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 05:59, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote: > Hey.

[DRBD-user] DRBD9 compiling/compat issues on kernel 5.9.13

2020-12-10 Thread e-m
Hi, I am on the "drbd-9.0" branch. First problem is that some of the compat tests are failing. My understanding is that there should not be any patch needed because I am using the latest kernel (5.9) which 9.0.26-0rc3 is based on. But when doing a "make", the following patches are getting