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Message-ID: <4727D564.3080205@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:07:48 -0400
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: 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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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.
Ok, I'll drop it and send the LTP fix upstream there.
- -Jeff
- --
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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