From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263093AbVHETMv (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:12:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263088AbVHETMn (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:12:43 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:51890 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263075AbVHETCz (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:02:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:01:15 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jens Axboe Cc: zanussi@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, karim@opersys.com, prasadav@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [-mm patch] relayfs: add read() support Message-Id: <20050805120115.4f511e36.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050805155826.GT5561@suse.de> References: <17138.53203.430849.147593@tut.ibm.com> <20050805144926.GS5561@suse.de> <17139.32831.571021.34524@tut.ibm.com> <20050805155826.GT5561@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > Jens Axboe writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 04 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > > At the kernel summit, there was some discussion of relayfs and the > > > > consensus was that it didn't make sense for relayfs to not implement > > > > read(). So here's a read implementation... > > > > > > It needs a few fixes to actually compile without errors. This works for > > > me, just tested with the block tracing stuff, works a charm! > > > > Great, glad to hear it! I should have noted in the posting, though, > > that you should first apply the 'API cleanup' patch, in which case you > > shouldn't get the compile errors. > > Ah, I see. The API is also much cleaner than what I looked at a few > months ago (even before the cleanup). > > Andrew, can you merge it pretty please? yup, we'll add relayfs to 2.6.14.