Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc2

[Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:39 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > Why does it happen at all, though?
> > 
> > davem recently merged a patch which adds ext3 ioctls to fs/compat_ioctl.c. 
> > That required inclusion of ext3 and jbd header files.  Those files explode
> > unpleasantly when CONFIG_JBD=n.
> 
> Oh. How about just making jbd.h do the rigt thing, and not care about the 
> configuration?
> 
> If we include jbd.h, we want the jbd data structures. There's never any 
> reason to care whether jbd is enabled or not afaik.
> 
> Ie maybe just something like this?
> 
> (Untested, obviously. I'm just assuming that anything that actually 
> _needs_ the jbd functionality should have made sure that jdb is enabled.)
> 
> Zan, Jeffrey?
[snip patch]

Yes, that also works for me.  It compiled and is running just fine.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>

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