From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965324AbaGRQIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:08:09 -0400 Received: from asavdk3.altibox.net ([109.247.116.14]:35747 "EHLO asavdk3.altibox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761707AbaGRQII (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:08:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:08:03 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Khalid Aziz 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 Message-ID: <20140718160802.GA21385@ravnborg.org> References: <1405696541-25189-1-git-send-email-khalid.aziz@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1405696541-25189-1-git-send-email-khalid.aziz@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Thanks, Sam