linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext2: No longer export ext2

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Message-ID: <20120323175534.GI6589@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:55:34 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <aedilger@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: No longer export ext2_fs.h to user space

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 09:13:31AM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:27:36AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > Since the on-disk format has been stable for quite some time, users
> > should either use the headers provided by libext2fs or keep a private
> > copy of this header. For the full discussion, see this thread:
> > 
> > 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/21/516
> > 
> > While at it, this commit removes all __KERNEL__ guards, which are now
> > unnecessary.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
> > Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> > Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> > Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
> > Cc: Andreas Dilger <aedilger@...il.com>
> > Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
> 
> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Al, do you want to take this in the VFS tree, or do you want me to
> carry this in the ext4 tree?  Or Jan could carry it in the ext2 tree.
> I don't really have strong feelings about who picks it up.  I will if
> no one else wants to...

Applied.  I'll probably add a followup moving most of that stuff to
fs/ext2/ext2.h on top of that commit...
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