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From: Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Kandan Venkataraman <kven709@cse.unsw.EDU.AU>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Loop device - Tracking page writes made to a loop  devicethrough mmap
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:11:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F05FEB.9AED3D31@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.64.0703081342000.21734@williams.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU

Kandan Venkataraman wrote:
> All comments have been taken care of.

Your patch still does not do conversions of existing user space visible
'struct loop_info64' which is pretty much cast in stone. Blindly overwriting
larger structure over smaller user space buffer of existing userspace
binaries is the wrong way to do this.

There was a time when folks at least pretended that breaking user space ABI
was not tolerable.

-- 
Jari Ruusu  1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9  DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-08 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-08  3:01 [PATCH] Loop device - Tracking page writes made to a loop device through mmap Kandan Venkataraman
2007-03-08 19:11 ` Jari Ruusu [this message]
2007-03-08 20:01   ` [PATCH] Loop device - Tracking page writes made to a loop devicethrough mmap Kandan Venkataraman

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