From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: No longer export ext2_fs.h to user space
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:16:37 -0700
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To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
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On 03/24/2012 02:51 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> Note that we are planning on unexporting ext2_fs.h, and then utterly
> removing it from the tree (with what fs/ext2 needs being moved to
> fs/ext2/ext2.h).
> 
> 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.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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