linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/18] lkdtm: use generic_file

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Message-ID: <20100722000623.GE5801@nowhere>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:06:25 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:40:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When the default llseek behavior gets changed to
> not allowing seek, all file operations that rely
> on the current behaviour need to use an explicit
> .llseek operation.
> 
> The files that lkdtm uses in debugfs are regular
> files and they get read using simple_read_from_buffer,
> so generic_file_llseek is the right operation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---



Applied, thanks.

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