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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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