Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:51:48 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: ->direct_IO API change in current 2.4 BK |
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On Jul 09, 2003 20:29 +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: > How about instead following Alan's suggestion to replace > KERNEL_HAS_O_DIRECT with a KERNEL_HAS_O_DIRECT2 that can be used to > switch between the old and new O_DIRECT format in the XFS patches?
Actually, I like that a lot more, as it allows out-of-tree code to know which interface to use, and we don't have to key on kernel version (which is bogus if compiling against a vendor kernel that back-ports this fix).
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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