From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Jamie Lokier" <jamie@shareable.org>,
"Jan Blunck" <jblunck@suse.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"Linux-Kernel Mailinglist" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
jkacur@redhat.com, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] BKL: Remove BKL from default_llseek()
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:17:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911182017.26266.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091118181433.50b1b707@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> Stuff that looks trivial to salvage and works if you don't pread/write I
> imagine
>
> drivers/sbus/char/flash.c
It also breaks if you do consecutive read() operations without an lseek
between them, because read() does not update *pos. It should work if you
read the whole thing with a single read() operation though, like
the other drivers you mentioned.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-18 16:07 [PATCH 1/2] BKL: Remove BKL from default_llseek() Jan Blunck
2009-11-18 16:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] BKL: Update documentation on llseek( \b) Jan Blunck
2009-11-18 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] BKL: Remove BKL from default_llseek() Alan Cox
2009-11-18 17:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-18 17:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18 18:00 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-18 18:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18 18:14 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-18 19:17 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-11-18 17:35 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-18 17:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-18 18:16 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 2:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-19 10:13 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-18 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-18 17:55 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-18 17:53 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-18 18:17 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-18 20:02 ` Jan Blunck
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