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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/15] osst: Use noop_llseek() instead of default_llseek()
Jan Blunck wrote:
> __os_scsi_tape_open() suggests that llseek() doesn't work:
> "We really want to do nonseekable_open(inode, filp); here, but some
> versions of tar incorrectly call lseek on tapes and bail out if that
> fails. So we disallow pread() and pwrite(), but permit lseeks."
>
> Instead of using the fallback default_llseek() the driver should use
> noop_llseek() which leaves the file->f_pos untouched but succeeds.

st.c has the same comment, but I didn't see a patch for st.c in the series.

-- Jamie


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