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* [patch 0/4] Series to allow a "const" file_operations struct
@ 2006-01-06 21:45 Arjan van de Ven
  2006-01-06 21:46 ` [patch 1/4] fix some f_ops abuse in acpi Arjan van de Ven
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From: Arjan van de Ven @ 2006-01-06 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: akpm

Hi,

this series allows drivers to have "const" file_operations, by making
the f_ops field in the inode const. This has another benefit, there have
been several bugs where code accidentally wrote to the ->f_ops
structure, forgetting that it's a shared structure. One of those bugs
got fixed in november for example (as a result of these patches),
another one is fixed in this series. 

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven


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2006-01-06 21:45 [patch 0/4] Series to allow a "const" file_operations struct Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-06 21:46 ` [patch 1/4] fix some f_ops abuse in acpi Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-06 21:47 ` [patch 2/4] fix input layer f_ops abuse Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-06 23:12   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-06 21:49 ` [patch 3/4] fix cifs bugs wrt writing to f_ops Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-06 21:51 ` [patch 4/4] Actually make the f_ops field const Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-07  8:00   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-07  8:13     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-06 21:55 ` [patch 0/4] Series to allow a "const" file_operations struct Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-06 22:46   ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-07  0:29     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-07  1:01       ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-01-07  7:40       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-07  8:33       ` Arjan van de Ven

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