[Linux-NTFS-Dev] [PATCH 17/17] NTFS: Document extended attribute ($EA) NEED_EA flag.

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

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

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <ai...@ca...>

---

 fs/ntfs/ChangeLog |    2 ++
 fs/ntfs/layout.h  |    4 +++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

applies-to: 27468ef642b1d6e7a8b3c7f7f9a842e5ad92456e
c9c2009a4e915db17f32701d1f0535b400e61b58
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
index dea7424..50a7749 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 71b25da..f5678d5 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;
---
0.99.9