From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sparc: Add support for seek and shorter read to /dev/mdesc
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:08:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140718160802.GA21385@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405696541-25189-1-git-send-email-khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 09:15:40AM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> /dev/mdesc on Linux does not support reading arbitrary number
> of bytes and seeking while /dev/mdesc on Solaris does. This
> causes tools that work on Solaris to break on Linux. This patch
> adds these two capabilities to /dev/mdesc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Thanks,
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-18 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-18 15:15 [PATCH v3] sparc: Add support for seek and shorter read to /dev/mdesc Khalid Aziz
2014-07-18 16:08 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2014-07-22 4:37 ` David Miller
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