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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Cc: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() to user space
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:00:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1332396053.3058.2.camel@koala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120322055354.GA3942@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de>

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On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 06:53 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> What's the recommended fix for packages that cannot or will not use
> libext2fs, like busybox? Copy the required parts into a private header
> and use that instead?

The normal way is to just keep a private copy of the whole header file.
Because the on-disk format stays compatible, those programs do not have
to update the header very often - only rarely if they want to support
some new feature.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-22  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ 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 [this message]
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  9:27                 ` 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
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  6:50               ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-24  8:37               ` Al Viro
2012-03-24 17:59                 ` Mike Frysinger

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