On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 08:00:41AM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 06:53 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote: > > What's the recommended fix for packages that cannot or will not use > > libext2fs, like busybox? Copy the required parts into a private header > > and use that instead? > > The normal way is to just keep a private copy of the whole header file. > Because the on-disk format stays compatible, those programs do not have > to update the header very often - only rarely if they want to support > some new feature. Even if they're not iwlling to use libext2fs (for space reasons, I would assume? It can't be because of license compatibility issues since they are both GPLv2), they could just simply grab the ext2_fs.h from e2fsprogs. That has all of the file system definitions for ext2, ext3, and ext4. Regards, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
