Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:24:22 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] linux/magic.h for magic numbers |
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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
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