Re: [PATCH] ext4: Register ext[23] support only after successful ext4 registration

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 02:20:45PM -0600, Marc Aurèle La France wrote:
> Register ext4 as a "replacement" for ext2 and ext3 only after ext4 itself has
> been successfully registered.  As a side effect, this allows
> unregister_as_ext[23]() to be inlined.

The corrent ordering is deliberate; it allows file systems that have
ext2 and ext3 only file system features will be reported as using ext2
and ext3 in /proc/mounts.  This doesn't matter quite as much, but it
could potentially break userspace if a legacy file system that only
has ext2 file system features is mounted and reported as ext4.

So sorry, I can't take this change.

					- Ted