[LU-8530] Bad configure code snuck into ldiskfs LDISKFS_LINUX_SERIES macro

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Priority: Minor
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Yang Sheng
• Reporter: Christopher Morrone (Inactive)

Description

This bad code was snuck into a "kernel update" patch, in commit 6c9384678f5555f87bcc7311bb5bf73b1e4bf4e4.

case x$LDISKFS_SERIES in
	x)			# not set
		;;
	*.series)		# set externally
		;;
	*) LDISKFS_SERIES=
esac
AS_IF([test -z "$LDISKFS_SERIES"], [

Not even a comment in the commit message to explain it's existence, so I'm left to guess at what the author intended. But whatever was intended, this isn't the right way to go about it.

I'll submit a patch to revert this section.