Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 25 May 2001 14:18:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: DVD blockdevice buffers |
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On 25 May 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I obviously picked a bad name, and a bad place to start. > int data_uptodate(struct page *page, unsigned offset, unsigned len) > > This is really an extension to PG_uptodate, not readpage.
Ugh.
The above is just horrible.
It doesn't fix any problems, it is only an ugly work-around for a situation that never happens in real life. An application that only re-reads the data that it just wrote itself is a _stupid_ application, and I'm absolutely not interested in having a new interface that is useless for everything _but_ such a stupid application.
Linus
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