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From: Phil Auld <pauld@egenera.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 revert block_llseek behavior to standard
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:14:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020812141422.K27650@vienna.EGENERA.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1029175566.16421.196.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 07:06:06PM +0100

Rumor has it that on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 07:06:06PM +0100 Alan Cox said:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 18:57, Phil Auld wrote
> > > Did it work correctly - the answer I believe is - no it didnt.
> > > 
> > 
> > Fair enough. The higher level fix is a band-aid over bugs in some of 
> > the lower level drivers. 
> > 
> > Thanks for the info. I didn't think that patch would go anywhere,
> > but it did help explain why the change. 
> 
> Do push it for 2.5 - there we have time to find out what it exposes
> 

I sent out a 2.5.31 version as well, although I muffed Al Viro's address. 
I don't know if it really falls under his domain anyway...

Thanks,


Phil

-- 
Philip R. Auld, Ph.D.                  Technical Staff 
Egenera Corp.                        pauld@egenera.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-12 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-12 16:06 Phil Auld
2002-08-12 16:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 16:36   ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 17:14     ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 17:57       ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 18:06         ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 18:14           ` Phil Auld [this message]
2002-08-12 18:06       ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-12 17:14   ` Phil Auld
2002-08-13  8:13   ` Helge Hafting
     [not found] <266483518@toto.iv>
2002-08-12 22:25 ` Peter Chubb

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