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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 42986] ext2_fs.h requires undefined type umode_t
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:31:28 -0400
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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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> --- 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.