linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask

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Message-ID: <1332396053.3058.2.camel@koala>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:00:41 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
Cc:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() to user space

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 06:53 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> What's the recommended fix for packages that cannot or will not use
> libext2fs, like busybox? Copy the required parts into a private header
> and use that instead?

The normal way is to just keep a private copy of the whole header file.
Because the on-disk format stays compatible, those programs do not have
to update the header very often - only rarely if they want to support
some new feature.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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