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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/magic.h for magic numbers
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:24:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4502C086.2080302@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609091453200.29522@alpha.polcom.net>
Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> An IRC discussion sparked a memory: most filesystems really don't
>> need to put anything at all in include/linux. Excluding API-ish
>> filesystems like procfs, just about the only filesystem symbols that
>> get exported outside of __KERNEL__ are the *_SUPER_MAGIC symbols,
>> and similar symbols.
>>
>> After seeing the useful attributes of linux/poison.h, I propose a
>> similar linux/magic.h.
>
> But... if some patch changes this file (like adding new magic symbol) it
> will cause large part of the kernel to rebuild without any good reason. No?
No :)
* The days when linux/fs.h included individual filesystem headers is
long gone. Only the filesystems themselves typically include the
linux/foo_fs*.h files these days.
* It's not like we add new filesystems to the kernel very often.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-09 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-09 11:02 Jeff Garzik
2006-09-09 12:58 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-09-09 13:24 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-09-09 13:33 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-09-09 13:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-12 8:22 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-12 9:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-12 12:30 ` Jeff Garzik
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