From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751846AbaGVEhl (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:37:41 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:41285 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750888AbaGVEhk (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:37:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20140721.213738.1831544429590257732.davem@davemloft.net> To: khalid.aziz@oracle.com Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sparc: Add support for seek and shorter read to /dev/mdesc From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1405696541-25189-1-git-send-email-khalid.aziz@oracle.com> References: <1405696541-25189-1-git-send-email-khalid.aziz@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Khalid Aziz Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:15:40 -0600 > /dev/mdesc on Linux does not support reading arbitrary number > of bytes and seeking while /dev/mdesc on Solaris does. This > causes tools that work on Solaris to break on Linux. This patch > adds these two capabilities to /dev/mdesc. > > Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz Applied to sparc-next, thanks.