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Message-ID: <10126.1190416295@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:11:35 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, viro@....linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org,
	sds@...ho.nsa.gov, casey@...aufler-ca.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/22] CacheFiles: Add a hook to write a single page of data to an inode

Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com> wrote:

> So why do you need a new address space operation? AFAICS the generic
> implementation will work for pretty much everyone who supports the
> existing prepare_write()/commit_write().

Because Christoph decreed that I wasn't allowed to call prepare_write() and
commit_write() directly.  It's possible that the method should be in the
inode_operations rather than on the address space.

> Furthermore, you don't appear to supply any alternative "optimised"
> implementations...

Optimised in what fashion?

David
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