Re: [PATCH 2/4] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_writeinstead

From: Ian Kent
Date: Mon May 22 2006 - 06:51:04 EST


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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