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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