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Message-ID: <4727D539.3080103@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:07:05 -0400
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmap: restore -ENODEV on missing f_op->mmap
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Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>>> Personally, I think this is probably a case of LTP codifying existing
>>> behavior rather than testing the for the specification. If that's the case
>>> and nobody really cares about the change in behavior, I'm fine letting this
>>> drop.
>> Hmm.. I think it's kind of stupid adding that special case early on, just
>> to get one particular error case return when there are multiple possible
>> ones.
>>
>> I don't care deeply, but this does smell like a test issue rather than a
>> code issue.
>>
>> Looking at that path, there are *other* things that might be worth
>> cleaning up, but this wasn't one of them..
>
>
> Jeff, will you (at least) notify the LTP project of this issue and
> need for a patch?
Sure. I'll send that out tonight or tomorrow morning.
- -Jeff
- --
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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