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On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:23 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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>                              Date: 
> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:23:23 -0400
> (Sun, 06:23 EST)
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> 
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:26:30PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > STATIC as defined by xfs already does this..
> > 
> > Weird. Unexpected. Different from everyone else. Is this some
> exercise in 
> > obfuscation?
> 
> The whole STATIC thing is weird to start with..
> 

Having to compile chunks of XFS code in both kernel and
userspace is also wierd (relative to other drivers), and
its a side-effect of needing to do that (all the code
dealing with specifics of ondisk format is shared).

cheers.

-- 
Nathan