From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() to user space
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:28:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120322162825.GA4028@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332396053.3058.2.camel@koala>
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 08:00:41AM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 06:53 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > What's the recommended fix for packages that cannot or will not use
> > libext2fs, like busybox? Copy the required parts into a private header
> > and use that instead?
>
> The normal way is to just keep a private copy of the whole header file.
> Because the on-disk format stays compatible, those programs do not have
> to update the header very often - only rarely if they want to support
> some new feature.
Even if they're not iwlling to use libext2fs (for space reasons, I
would assume? It can't be because of license compatibility issues
since they are both GPLv2), they could just simply grab the ext2_fs.h
from e2fsprogs. That has all of the file system definitions for ext2,
ext3, and ext4.
Regards,
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-22 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-21 21:50 [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() to user space Thierry Reding
2012-03-21 22:23 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-21 23:16 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-22 5:53 ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-22 6:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-22 16:28 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-03-22 16:47 ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-22 18:31 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-23 9:27 ` [PATCH] ext2: No longer export ext2_fs.h " Thierry Reding
2012-03-23 13:13 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-23 17:55 ` Al Viro
2012-03-24 21:51 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-24 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-25 1:16 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-22 17:31 ` [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() " Al Viro
2012-03-23 0:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-03-24 6:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-24 6:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-24 8:37 ` Al Viro
2012-03-24 17:59 ` Mike Frysinger
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