From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
amir73il@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 01/10] fs: common implementation of file type
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:02:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181024130206.GC11606@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181023201953.GA15687@pathfinder>
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 09:19:53PM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/file_type.h b/include/linux/file_type.h
Shouldn't this be in include/uapi/linux/fs_types.h?
One of things which must be made crystal clear is these definitions
MUST NOT ever change. It would break the Userspace ABI, and would
break file systems on-disk format.
It might also be useful to be clear *why* we are making this change in
the first place. Code refactorization is good from a code maintenance
perspective (either to fix bugs, although this code is pretty
trivial), or to make it easier to make changes in a single central
place (which MUST NOT) happen, or to make the compiled code more
compact.
So some documentation of how much text is actually saved might be
worthwhile.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-24 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-23 20:19 [RFC][PATCH v3 01/10] fs: common implementation of file type Phillip Potter
2018-10-24 6:16 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-10-24 8:21 ` Phillip Potter
2018-10-24 9:20 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-10-24 9:31 ` Phillip Potter
2018-10-24 9:44 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-10-24 9:56 ` Phillip Potter
2018-10-24 10:06 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-10-24 12:37 ` Al Viro
2018-10-24 13:02 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2018-10-24 14:41 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-10-25 11:20 ` Jan Kara
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