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From: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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, 9 Sep 2006 14:58:47 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609091453200.29522@alpha.polcom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060909110245.GA9617@havoc.gtf.org>
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?
Grzegorz Kulewski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-09 12:58 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 [this message]
2006-09-09 13:24 ` Jeff Garzik
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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