Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 May 2006 18:50:25 +0800 (WST) | From | Ian Kent <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead |
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On Mon, 22 May 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:35:19AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The loop driver plays with file_operations.write() also. The code should > > be reviewed and tested against filesystems which use LO_FLAGS_USE_AOPS as > > well as against those which do not, please. > > The LO_FLAGS_USE_AOPS stuff is broken, please drop it from -mm. I > explained to the RedHAt guy in detail on how to get it right. > > That beeing said the bu isn't autofs using ->write directly which is > done in a lot of places but the pipe code not setting it to > do_sync_write. >
If there's anything I need to do to help just point me in the right direction.
The brief look at the patch that I had left me thinking the read and write methods were not set but I probably missed something obvious and didn't return to look again.
Ian
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