From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:00:51 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: NTFS: Document extended attribute ($EA) NEED_EA flag.  (Based on libntfs
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.15-rc1~59^2~4^2~3
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9c2009a4e915db17f32701d1f0535b400e61b58;p=linux-2.6

NTFS: Document extended attribute ($EA) NEED_EA flag.  (Based on libntfs
      patch by Yura Pakhuchiy.)

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
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diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
index dea7424051..50a7749cfc 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ ToDo/Notes:
 	- $EA attributes can be both resident and non-resident.
 	- Use %z for size_t to fix compilation warnings.  (Andrew Morton)
 	- Fix compilation warnings with gcc-4.0.2 on SUSE 10.0.
+	- Document extended attribute ($EA) NEED_EA flag.  (Based on libntfs
+	  patch by Yura Pakhuchiy.)
 
 2.1.24 - Lots of bug fixes and support more clean journal states.
 
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/layout.h b/fs/ntfs/layout.h
index 71b25dab81..f5678d5d79 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/layout.h
+++ b/fs/ntfs/layout.h
@@ -2374,7 +2374,9 @@ typedef struct {
  * Extended attribute flags (8-bit).
  */
 enum {
-	NEED_EA	= 0x80
+	NEED_EA	= 0x80		/* If set the file to which the EA belongs
+				   cannot be interpreted without understanding
+				   the associates extended attributes. */
 } __attribute__ ((__packed__));
 
 typedef u8 EA_FLAGS;