Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 6 authors, 2021-10-06
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[PATCH] mdadm: split off shared library

From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Date: 2021-08-25 14:35:47

Hi all,

this is, contrary to the subject, not a patch, but rather a question on
how to submit a patchset.
I've been working on splitting off a shared library from mdadm, with the
aim that it can be included from other programs.
Reasoning behind it that I've written a monitor program
(github.com:/hreinecke/md_monitor) and found it a major pain having to
exec() mdadm, and then keep fingers crossed that things succeed; error
recovery from _that_ turned out to be a major drag. And so I figured
that a shared library is possibly the best way to go.

(And, as a side note: having a shared library would also allow to build
a python binding, which possibly will have even more use-cases ...)

So I've build a patchset to split off a shared library from mdadm, and
build mdadm against that:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hare/mdadm.git
branch shlib

But as it turns out, these are 30+ patches, and I didn't want to flood
the mailinglist with that.
So what are the procedures here?

Are you okay with having the entire patchset on the mailing list?
Or are there other ways?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Hannes
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Dr. Hannes Reinecke		           Kernel Storage Architect
hare@suse.de			                  +49 911 74053 688
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
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