Btrfs v0.14 Released

[Jeff Mahoney]

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2008-05-02 18:26, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>>> To the best of my knowledge, the AppArmor patches are arch and flavour
>>> independent. If CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR exists, then the AA code is
>>> compiled. This is certainly the case for Hardy. Neither Kees or myself
>>> are aware of any reason why it won't also hold true for Intrepid.
>> Grumble. The issue isn't whether AA is enabled, it's whether it's
>> present in the source. Patching the source with AA modifies a bunch of
>> core VFS function prototypes. CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR won't exist if AA
>> isn't enabled, but the prototypes will have changed anyway.
> 
> So... add an invisible CONFIG_HAVE_APPARMOR, much like
> CONFIG_X86_HAVE_CMPXCHG (or whatever it's called), and test for that.
> As long as you are not in the mainline kernel, every hack is
> forgiven.

That'll work moving forward, but btrfs also supports older releases.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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