David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > (*) The contents of a number of filesystem- and blockdev-specific header
> > files are now contingent on their own configuration options. This
> > includes: Ext3/JBD, RAID, MSDOS and ReiserFS.
>
> Why? Those header files shouldn't be included from anywhere _but_ the
> code in question,
Go and look at fs/compat_ioctl.c.
> and in fact should probably be just moved into fs/foo instead of living in
> include/linux/foo_fs.h.
Definitely. Patches please:-)
> And please, _never_ make anything dependent on CONFIG_foo_MODULE.
Ah, but... The core kernel makes use of the certain header files, even when
their actual intended target is compiled as a module. If I just use
"CONFIG_foo" only, then the module won't compile as a module.
David
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