linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: special fs magic

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Date:	Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:07:49 -0400
From:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	David Safford <safford@...son.ibm.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: special fs magic

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 09:00 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:00:12PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > Discussion on the mailing list questioned the use of these
> > magic values in userspace, concluding these values are already
> > exported to userspace via statfs and their correct/incorrect
> > usage is left up to the userspace application.
> > 
> >   - Move special fs magic number definitions to magic.h
> >   - Add magic.h include
> 
> This should be patch 1, and we can put in in ASAP even if the rest needs
> some more work.
> 

The ordering of the first and second patches is interchangeable without
requiring any patch changes.  

Mimi

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