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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 42986] ext2_fs.h requires undefined type umode_t
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:31:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120327073128.GA974@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201203270533.q2R5Xl42031625@bugzilla.kernel.org>

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 05:33:47AM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42986
> 
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> 
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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.

That's probably a good idea, given how widespread people use the flags.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-27  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-24 13:23 [Bug 42986] New: ext2_fs.h requires undefined type umode_t bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-24 14:04 ` [Bug 42986] " bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-24 14:16 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-25  1:20 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-25  2:47 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-25 17:21 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-27  4:41 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-27  5:02 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-27  5:33 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-27  7:31   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-03-27  5:58 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-27  6:05 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-27  6:17 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-03-27  6:21 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-04-12 11:37 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-04-12 15:04 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-04-13  6:48 ` bugzilla-daemon

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