Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken

Jörn Engel
2004-05-03T21:38:17Z

On Mon, 3 May 2004 22:16:07 +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
>
> I'd rather kill open() completely - we only have a handful of in-tree users
> and there's no good reason to keep that crap, AFAICS. I'm gathering the
> list of in-tree callers of open()/lseek()/close() and so far a lot of them
> look buggy. More on that later...

Do you know how many of those exist purely for the purpose of passing
a struct file to one of the various read/write functions?

Jörn

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