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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix proc_file_write missing ppos update
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On Monday 31 August 2009, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> I don't like any churn in that area. Everything is ready for ->proc_fops usage.
> So we should simply convert users away.
> Actually most of SCSI and IDE is already done, just wasn't sent yet.

Ok, fair enough. I was expecting that the remaining drivers are suffering from
lack of testing options, as many of them are rather obscure. If you think we can
just convert them in one step, that's even better.

	Arnd <><