From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] xfs: wire up aio_fsync method
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:01:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140617140159.GA1709@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <539F5C6F.4060402@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:06:55PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > Talking about documentation: The kernel aio manpages (io_*.2) seems
> > to not really be very useful, mostly because they don't explain how
> > to set up the iocbs. Michael, any idea how to get started to improve
> > this?
>
> Well, it just needs someone knowledgeable to fill the gaps, and
> perhaps add an example program. I don't have that knowledge
> offhand myself...
Dave pointed out that there actually are man pages for the ops, they
just come with libaio instead of the man-pages project. I'll send you
a patch to refer to them.
The libaio man pages could also use some work, I'll see if I can find
time for that as well.
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[not found] ` <20140612141329.GA11676@infradead.org>
[not found] ` <20140612234441.GT9508@dastard>
2014-06-13 16:23 ` [PATCH] [RFC] xfs: wire up aio_fsync method Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-15 22:33 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-16 2:00 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-16 2:58 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <539E5D66.8040605-tSWWG44O7X1aa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-16 7:19 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-16 19:30 ` Jens Axboe
2014-06-16 22:27 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-17 13:23 ` Jens Axboe
2014-06-18 0:28 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-18 2:24 ` Jens Axboe
2014-06-18 3:13 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-18 3:20 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <53A10597.6020707-tSWWG44O7X1aa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-18 5:02 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-18 6:13 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <20140613162352.GB23394-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-16 21:06 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-06-17 14:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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