Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:50:43 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7] VFS: Add generic_file_llseek_size |
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:06:50PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > Add a generic_file_llseek variant to the VFS that allows passing in > the maximum file size of the file system, instead of always > using maxbytes from the superblock. > > This can be used to eliminate some cut'n'paste seek code in ext4.
I'd reorder this to the front of the series. Also I think this helper could be used to implement default_llseek.
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