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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>,
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 09:44:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4502C52F.9080900@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060909133334.GB17085@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> But do we want one common set of magic numbers or do we try to divide it
> up per subssystem. The lattter approach are used for many other purposes
> so why not for magics too?
> Or in other word magic.h => fs_magic.h
It's a fair question. I would say, let need dictate the rename.
linux/poison.h covers many subsystems. And even across the entire
kernel, we don't often add magic numbers...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-09 13:44 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
2006-09-09 13:33 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-09-09 13:44 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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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