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Grzegorz Kulewski 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. > > But... if some patch changes this file (like adding new magic symbol) it > will cause large part of the kernel to rebuild without any good reason. No? No :) * The days when linux/fs.h included individual filesystem headers is long gone. Only the filesystems themselves typically include the linux/foo_fs*.h files these days. * It's not like we add new filesystems to the kernel very often. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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