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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH update] firewire: nosy: char device is not seekable
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:57:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010231057.18135.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.f853df65a5128ca0@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

On Saturday 23 October 2010, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Remove unnecessary .llseek handler that came in via an automated mass conversion.
> .llseek = NULL means no_llseek since commit 776c163b1b93.
> 
> The only client that uses this interface is nosy-dump in linux/tools/firewire
> and it knows not to seek in this char dev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
> ---
> I left out the addition of return nonseekable_open(...) in nosy_open in
> this update.  This works for nosy, but is it also formally correct?
> 

Most likely you also want the nonseekeable_open, which would prevent
both llseek and pread/pwrite, whereas leaving out llseek currently
only prevents llseek.

	Arnd


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-23  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-13 12:25 [PATCH] firewire: nosy: char device is not seekable Stefan Richter
2010-10-13 12:31 ` Stefan Richter
2010-10-13 13:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-22 23:08   ` [PATCH update] " Stefan Richter
2010-10-23  8:57     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-10-23 11:47       ` Stefan Richter

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