Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:30:09 +0100 |
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Ar Iau, 2006-07-27 am 19:01 +0300, ysgrifennodd Pekka J Enberg: > Yes revoke calls it too, but is that sufficient, or do we need ->revoke? > Ouch. You are right. I need to stick that invalidate_inode_pages2 > back in there. The do_fsync call takes care of writes only, obviously.
Actually that isn't true either - it takes care of *regular file* writes. Devices will need a revoke hook and thats really probably only right. If they don't have one just -EOPNOTSUPP, you can check it before you begin any other processing so its easy to check.
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