linux-kernel - Re: [git patch] add and use include/linux/magic.h

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609241005290.4388@g5.osdl.org>
Date:	Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:08:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patch] add and use include/linux/magic.h



On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Along the lines of linux/poison.h, do a similar thing with filesystem
> superblock (and later perhaps, other) magic numbers.  This permits
> us to delete several headers which -only- included the superblock
> magic number, and it integrates well with dwmw2's header_check /
> header_install stuff.

Ok, I'm a little worried that somebody might want its own magic number, 
but not have its namespace poisoned by other peoples magic numbers (think 
some user-level program like "e2fsck"), but I guess it's unlikely to be a 
real problem.

Pulled.

One more thing: your "please pull" looks fine, but if you were to also add 
the "--summary" argument to the diffstat generation, I'd have seen:

> Please pull from 'magic' branch of
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git magic
> 
> to receive the following updates:
> 
>  fs/affs/affs.h               |    1 -
>  fs/affs/super.c              |    1 +
> ....
>  include/linux/smb.h          |    3 +--
>  include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h |    3 +--
>  30 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)

followed by:

 delete mode 100644 include/linux/affs_fs.h
 delete mode 100644 include/linux/hpfs_fs.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/magic.h
 delete mode 100644 include/linux/openprom_fs.h

which is nice. You see which files actually disappear or appear (or are 
renamed). Ok?

		Linus
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