From 950b9d2dca42d96d1e89f1fe5540684328f3f548 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:00:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 11978 b: refs/heads/master c:
 c9c2009a4e915db17f32701d1f0535b400e61b58 h: refs/heads/master v: v3

---
 [refs]                  | 2 +-
 trunk/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog | 2 ++
 trunk/fs/ntfs/layout.h  | 4 +++-
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index fa1dd24e1d1f..7bfcc6afbd1d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: dda65b941f992ab10fda3d9f09539c68206b7114
+refs/heads/master: c9c2009a4e915db17f32701d1f0535b400e61b58
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/trunk/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
index dea742405161..50a7749cfca1 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/trunk/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/trunk/fs/ntfs/layout.h b/trunk/fs/ntfs/layout.h
index 71b25dab8199..f5678d5d7919 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ntfs/layout.h
+++ b/trunk/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;