linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] early init: open /dev/console with O

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Date:   Tue, 31 Dec 2019 19:30:19 -0500
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, youling257@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] early init: open /dev/console with O_LARGEFILE

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 04:02:26PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> If force_o_largefile() is true, /dev/console used to be opened
> with O_LARGEFILE. Retain that behaviour.
> 

One other thing that used to happen is fsnotify_open() -- I don't know
how that might affect this, but it seems like the only thing left that's
different.