On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:16:37AM -0500, Bill O'Donnell wrote: > The kernel commit to make the ioctl promotion (334e580a6f) moved > the definitions for the XFS ioctl to uapi/linux/fs.h for the > following reason: > > Hoist the ioctl definitions for the XFS_IOC_FS[SG]SETXATTR API > from fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_fs.h to include/uapi/linux/fs.h so that > the ioctls can be used by all filesystems, not just XFS. This > enables (initially) ext4 to use the ioctl to set project IDs on > inodes. > > This means we now need to handle this change in userspace as the > uapi/linux/fs.h file may not contain the definitions (i.e. new > xfsprogs/ old linux uapi files) xfsprogs needs to build. Hence we > need to massage the definition in xfs_fs.h to take the values from > the system header if it exists, otherwise keep the old definitions > for compatibility and platforms other than linux.. > > This patch was originally submitted by Dave Chinner > (http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2016-02/msg00108.html) > > Resubmitting with changes to accomodate upstream changes since > initial submission. This is unnecessary - the "include local version" changes were made to the platform headers (e.g. include/linux.h) in commit 83f4b5a ("xfs_fs.h: XFS_IOC_FS[SG]SETXATTR to FS_IOC_FS[SG]ETXATTR promotion"). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
