From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264038AbUECViR (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 17:38:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264057AbUECViR (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 17:38:17 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:744 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264038AbUECViI (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 17:38:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 23:24:50 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , davidm@hpl.hp.com, bunk@fs.tum.de, eyal@eyal.emu.id.au, linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken Message-ID: <20040503212450.GC31580@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <408F9BD8.8000203@eyal.emu.id.au> <20040501201342.GL2541@fs.tum.de> <20040501161035.67205a1f.akpm@osdl.org> <20040501175134.243b389c.akpm@osdl.org> <16534.35355.671554.321611@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040503140251.274e1239.akpm@osdl.org> <20040503211607.GG17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040503211607.GG17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -- Allan K. Chalmers