From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] adjust /dev/{kmem,mem,port} write handlers
Date: 03 Mar 2006 14:45:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p738xrrd4l6.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141378697.2883.39.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:31 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > The /dev/mem and /dev/kmem write handlers weren't fully POSIX compliant in
> > that they wouldn't always force the file pointer to be updated when returning
> > success status.
>
> should we instead just remove the /dev/mem and/or /dev/kmem write
> handlers entirely?
If you mmap it doesn't make any sense to not have read/write.
And they are sometimes quite useful for debugging.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-03 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-03 9:31 [PATCH] adjust /dev/{kmem,mem,port} write handlers Jan Beulich
2006-03-03 9:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-03 12:48 ` Robin Holt
2006-03-03 13:45 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-03-06 0:11 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-03-05 6:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 8:08 ` Jan Beulich
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