From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
Andreas Dilger <aedilger@gmail.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: No longer export ext2_fs.h to user space
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:16:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6E47C5.6040306@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120324215152.GA32554@thunk.org>
On 03/24/2012 02:51 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Note that we are planning on unexporting ext2_fs.h, and then utterly
> removing it from the tree (with what fs/ext2 needs being moved to
> fs/ext2/ext2.h).
>
> Someone who was compiling "the latest version" of syslinux has
> submitted a kernel bugzilla entry that this was breaking due to
> ext2_fs.h using umode_t which was no longer being exported by the
> kernel header files. Given that ext2_fs.h is about to go ***poof***
> (Al already has the changes in his vfs git tree), I thought I should
> give you a heads up....
>
Thanks. Syslinux already includes a private copy of ext2_fs.h, but I
need to scrub the umode_t inclusion.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-24 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-21 21:50 [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() to user space Thierry Reding
2012-03-21 22:23 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-21 23:16 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-22 5:53 ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-22 6:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-22 16:28 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-22 16:47 ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-22 18:31 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-23 9:27 ` [PATCH] ext2: No longer export ext2_fs.h " Thierry Reding
2012-03-23 13:13 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-23 17:55 ` Al Viro
2012-03-24 21:51 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-24 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-03-25 1:16 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-22 17:31 ` [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() " Al Viro
2012-03-23 0:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-03-24 6:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-24 6:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-24 8:37 ` Al Viro
2012-03-24 17:59 ` Mike Frysinger
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