From: Artem Bityutskiy Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() to user space Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:00:41 +0200 Message-ID: <1332396053.3058.2.camel@koala> References: <1332366608-2695-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> <20120321222357.GB24330@quack.suse.cz> <20120321231651.GC32041@thunk.org> <20120322055354.GA3942@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de> Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-g4Ckn/ZiVNiAM4sXbNMR" Cc: Ted Ts'o , Jan Kara , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org To: Thierry Reding Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:62225 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754058Ab2CVGA4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:00:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120322055354.GA3942@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-g4Ckn/ZiVNiAM4sXbNMR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy --=-g4Ckn/ZiVNiAM4sXbNMR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJPasAJAAoJEJtuLFy+q7feStkH/17W4b8bH+4qfZTy9GxWX6Hi T+PXFP/VJ2fiJjIkNNsw7DffVtUl1XaM3kTebOUNrBYKCi9U3VlcFumHICpgYCl/ d+GvqvznywdTvlcsxmB6hWq+dUa4CX8MEpep934NSkjCLJqCkpd8nDUMAHK6bU7j Z3dQ9wZlwb3NPWCXHRfNAJ6Wlrf0okGyWocdKMgiWsn+cOcFP6lLSnB3+yckDeM7 Tm4TBHHhvl576zvuQgwMkC0wLAEGf9A7u3pv9iVCj3mpSoUWIhJVx9Vx7qVVEObe miWm3xaVL/3q/Kw5q6c78j+KdVRM6KTfy53i68XQ/Odb8MehF6su7ZXpMb2jRz4= =4qxT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-g4Ckn/ZiVNiAM4sXbNMR--