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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: more devfs fun
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:06:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111060506.fA656Mq18958@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110271458300.21545-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110271422520.21545-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110271458300.21545-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

Alexander Viro writes:
> 	BTW, what the hell is that?
> /*
>  * hwgraph_bdevsw_get - returns the fops of the given devfs entry.
> */
> struct file_operations * 
> hwgraph_bdevsw_get(devfs_handle_t de)
> {
>         return(devfs_get_ops(de));
> }
> 
> 	It's arch/ia64/sn/io/hcl.c.  The funny thing being, the thing
> you will get from devfs_get_ops() will _not_ be struct
> file_operations *.  And that's aside of the fact that any use of
> that function is very likely to be racy as hell.  Sigh...

Sigh indeed. I didn't write that code. Looks like someone is (ab)using
the devfs API. Contact the maintainer of that code for insight.

				Regards,

					Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-06  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-27 15:00 Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 15:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 17:12   ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 17:42     ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 18:00       ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 18:13         ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 18:26         ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 19:02           ` more devfs fun Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 19:16             ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 19:50               ` more devfs fun (Piled Higher and Deeper) Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 20:06                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 21:09                   ` Ryan Cumming
2001-10-27 21:22                     ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-28  1:00                     ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-28  8:45                     ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-28  9:54                       ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-28 12:27                       ` Roman Zippel
2001-10-28 13:16                         ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-28 22:31                       ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-28 23:11                         ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 21:01                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06  6:35                 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-06  7:10                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06  7:14                   ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-06  7:17                     ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06 20:14                     ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-28 10:06               ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2001-11-06  5:21               ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-06  5:17             ` more devfs fun Richard Gooch
2001-11-06  5:06           ` Richard Gooch [this message]
2001-11-06  7:01         ` Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 Richard Gooch
2001-11-06  7:03           ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-09  5:38           ` Devfs races with block devices Richard Gooch
2001-11-06  7:19         ` Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 Richard Gooch
2001-11-06  7:22           ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 19:13       ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 19:19         ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 19:26           ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-28 20:40           ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-28 20:57             ` Peter T. Breuer
2001-10-29  5:38               ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-29  6:07                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-29  6:34                   ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-28 21:42             ` Alexander Viro

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