Re: [PATCH] linux/magic.h for magic numbers

[Grzegorz Kulewski]

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?


Grzegorz Kulewski

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