From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E75C433DF for ; Fri, 29 May 2020 03:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F689206A4 for ; Fri, 29 May 2020 03:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2407578AbgE2DZY (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2020 23:25:24 -0400 Received: from outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu ([18.9.28.11]:56592 "EHLO outgoing.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2388714AbgE2DZS (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2020 23:25:18 -0400 Received: from callcc.thunk.org (pool-100-0-195-244.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [100.0.195.244]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id 04T3P5xl028612 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 28 May 2020 23:25:06 -0400 Received: by callcc.thunk.org (Postfix, from userid 15806) id 6188C420304; Thu, 28 May 2020 23:25:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 23:25:05 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" To: "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger , Danny Milosavljevic , Samuel Thibault Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: support xattr gnu.* namespace for the Hurd Message-ID: <20200529032505.GM228632@mit.edu> References: <20200525193940.878-1-janneke@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200525193940.878-1-janneke@gnu.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 09:39:40PM +0200, Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > The Hurd gained[0] support for moving the translator and author > fields out of the inode and into the "gnu.*" xattr namespace. > > In anticipation of that, an xattr INDEX was reserved[1]. The Hurd has > now been brought into compliance[2] with that. > > This patch adds support for reading and writing such attributes from > Linux; you can now do something like > > mkdir -p hurd-root/servers/socket > touch hurd-root/servers/socket/1 > setfattr --name=gnu.translator --value='"/hurd/pflocal\0"' \ > hurd-root/servers/socket/1 > getfattr --name=gnu.translator hurd-root/servers/socket/1 > # file: 1 > gnu.translator="/hurd/pflocal" > > to setup a pipe translator, which is being used to create[3] a > vm-image for the Hurd from GNU Guix. > > [0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5869799859027968 > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3980bd3b406addb327d858aebd19e229ea340b9a > [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/commit/?id=a04c7bf83172faa7cb080fbe3b6c04a8415ca645 > [3] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-hurd-vm This patch is missing a Signed-off-by. If you don't understand why this is really important, please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin Can you resubmit with the DCO or confirm that it's OK for me to add your Signed-off-by? - Ted