Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Frysinger <> | Subject | Re: [patch] export ufs_fs.h to userspace | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:05:35 -0500 |
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On Thursday 08 February 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:46:16AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > was ufs_fs.h purposefully not exported to userspace or did it just slip > > through the cracks ? assuming the latter scenario, the attached patch > > touches up the relationship between ufs_fs.h and its sub headers (like > > ufs_fs_sb.h) so that we can export it ... the silo bootloader takes > > advantage of this header for example > > We should only export kernel interfaces and ufs_fs.h isn't one. silo > wants it because it defines the ufs format - but the linux structs for > that can and do change, e.g. adding unions when we add support for the > gazillion+1st ufs format variant. silo should just grab a copy of it > that it's happy with it and update it when it needs to support another > format variant (which I think is a rather theoretical issue as silo > only supports the solaris/sparc format IIR)
seems logical to mean, thanks for the response -mike [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |