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

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Message-ID: <20120325011613.GB32554@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:16:13 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	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 Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 03:16:37PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 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.

Ah, good.  I'll close the kernel bugzilla report in that case.

Thanks,

    	   	   	      	  	 - Ted

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