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Subject: [Bug 42986] ext2_fs.h requires undefined type umode_t
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:33:47 GMT
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--- Comment #8 from H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>  2012-03-27 05:33:47 ---
That's fine, but it's also a gratuitous change to previously working userspace.
 It sounds like the right thing would be to leave <linux/ext2_fs.h> in place
exporting only those constants as a backwards compatibility measure.

I can update Syslinux, but it isn't just about Syslinux; in general it's rude
to break userspace unnecessarily :-/

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