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From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: FW: Linux kernel file offset pointer races
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:50:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040809165012.25562.qmail@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Aug 2004 15:45:12 BST." <1092062710.14129.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>

> Linus has
> proposed a different solution that makes it harder for new drivers to
> make the same mistakes again

This (along with the bits which have just gone into BK) hints at a
driver API change.  Inquiring minds are *very* curious about such things
at the moment...  will there be a file_operations method prototype
change associated with the file offset fixes?

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-09 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-05  8:42 FW: Linux kernel file offset pointer races Giuliano Pochini
2004-08-05 10:30 ` Jirka Kosina
2004-08-07 17:15   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-11 14:26     ` Andrey Savochkin
2004-08-11 21:14       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-12  7:55         ` Andrey Savochkin
2004-08-12 13:53           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-09  8:33   ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-09 14:45     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-09 16:50       ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2004-08-09 17:24         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-10  6:08       ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-05 20:34 ` Alan Cox

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