Re: [PATCH] ext2: No longer export ext2_fs.h to user space

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Mar 24 2012 - 18:18:01 EST


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

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.

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