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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>,
	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@kernel.org>,
	"\"S.Çağlar Onur\"" <caglar@pardus.org.tr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Frank Seidel" <fseidel@suse.de>,
	"Onur Küçük" <onur@pardus.org.tr>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.26 patch] fat_valid_media() isn't for userspace
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:41:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484CB475.7070707@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqwjmekq.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp>

OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>>
>> We need to make this either __kernel_dirent_t[*] or something like 
>> struct __msdos_fs_dirent.
> 
> I see. "struct dirent" in linux/dirent.h has very few users in kernel,
> and probably userland doesn't use it, so it seems it should be renamed.
> 
> Well, the patch is like this (sorry, other cleanup is in this patch)?
> BTW, does typedef help it in this case?
> 

If we're using a FAT-specific structure, then no, there is no reason to 
use a typedef.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-09  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-08 18:16 [PATCH] include/linux/msdos_fs.h: Cleanup include/linux/msdos_fs.h for userspace S.Çağlar Onur
2008-06-08 18:36 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-08 18:43 ` [2.6.26 patch] fat_valid_media() isn't " Adrian Bunk
2008-06-08 18:55   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-09  1:14     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-09  4:12       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-09  4:41         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-06-09  8:05         ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-09 22:26         ` [2.6 patch] fat/dir.c: switch to struct __fat_fs_dirent Adrian Bunk
2008-06-09 23:12           ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-09 22:27       ` [2.6 patch] remove the in-kernel struct dirent{,64} Adrian Bunk

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