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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.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-24 22:18 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
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 [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  6:50               ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-24  8:37               ` Al Viro
2012-03-24 17:59                 ` Mike Frysinger

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