From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
viro@math.psu.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove swap file support
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:59:07 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010717235907.A14652@weta.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B472C06.78A9530C@mandrakesoft.com> <m1elrk3uxh.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <20010715032528.E6722@weta.f00f.org> <m13d7z4dmv.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
In-Reply-To: <m13d7z4dmv.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:35:52AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
I can't see how any device that doesn't support read or writing
just a byte can be a character device.
Why not... -EINVAL if the read alignment or size is improper...
--cw
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
viro@math.psu.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove swap file support
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:59:07 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010717235907.A14652@weta.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m13d7z4dmv.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:35:52AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
I can't see how any device that doesn't support read or writing
just a byte can be a character device.
Why not... -EINVAL if the read alignment or size is improper...
--cw
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-17 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-07 15:34 RFC: Remove swap file support Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:15 ` arjan
2001-07-12 7:27 ` Fabbione
2001-07-12 13:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-17 5:36 ` Val Henson
2001-07-14 6:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-14 6:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-14 14:44 ` jlnance
2001-07-14 16:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-14 17:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-14 15:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-14 15:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-14 17:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-14 17:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-15 3:42 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-15 3:42 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-17 11:59 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2001-07-17 11:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
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