From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Joseph D. Wagner" Subject: Adding Deprecated Attribute Tags Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:32:49 +0600 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200311131932.49203.theman@josephdwagner.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ssa8.serverconfig.com ([209.51.129.179]:20937 "EHLO ssa8.serverconfig.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264476AbTKNBdI (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:33:08 -0500 Received: from 24-196-33-250.shb.wi.charter.com ([24.196.33.250] helo=192.168.1.2) by ssa8.serverconfig.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AKSpd-00061w-F9 for linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:32:43 -0500 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org I formally request that the struct ext2_dir_entry and ext3_dir_entry in the ext2_fs.h and ext3_fs.h files be changed to add the below specified attributes: struct ext2_dir_entry { __u32 inode; /* Inode number */ __u16 rec_len; /* Directory entry length */ __u16 name_len; /* Name length */ char name[EXT2_NAME_LEN]; /* File name */ } __attribute__ ((deprecated)); struct ext3_dir_entry { __u32 inode; /* Inode number */ __u16 rec_len; /* Directory entry length */ __u16 name_len; /* Name length */ char name[EXT3_NAME_LEN]; /* File name */ } __attribute__ ((deprecated)); This will aid future development and debugging to ensure that everyone uses the new struct ext2_dir_entry_2 and can take advantage of the additional fields. Joseph D. Wagner