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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:20:32 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] uio: do not expose inode to uio open/release hooks
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:12:02AM +0100, Benedikt Spranger wrote:
> The inode parameter is unused by in kernel users of UIO.

Ok.

> Also the inode parameter makes it hard to resolve the existing open(),
> mmap() and close() difficulty.

I don't understand, what do you mean by this?  What is this parameter
causing problems with?

greg k-h