Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:30:38 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] linux/magic.h for magic numbers |
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Ian Kent wrote: > On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> An IRC discussion sparked a memory: most filesystems really don't >> need to put anything at all in include/linux. Excluding API-ish >> filesystems like procfs, just about the only filesystem symbols that >> get exported outside of __KERNEL__ are the *_SUPER_MAGIC symbols, >> and similar symbols. >> >> After seeing the useful attributes of linux/poison.h, I propose a >> similar linux/magic.h. >> >> We can see from the patch below that this permitted the deletion of a >> couple headers, where the *_SUPER_MAGIC symbol was the only thing in the >> entire header. >> >> Other non-filesystem-related magic numbers could get moved here >> eventually, if maintainers so desire, but I wanted to start off with the >> obvious low-hanging fruit. >> > > Would be good to include autofs in this lot. > > Defined in linux/autofs/autofs_i.h > Defined in linux/autofs4/autofs_i.h > > as > > #define AUTOFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x0187
Updated.
Andrew, please add the "magic" branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git
to the list of trees you pull.
Thanks,
Jeff
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