Re: [PATCH 1/1] lseek - SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA support

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 21:29 -0500, Eric L wrote:

> > vfs_lseek.patch:
> >
> > Can you add definititions of SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA to fs.h?  I really
> > don't like that the code doesn't use the symbolic constants.
> >
> 
> Agreed.  When I originally wrote it against 2.6.17.7, I couldn't find
> any precedent for adding such defines, but I see they are in 2.6.18.1
> at least.

Yeah, I realize the original code used 1 & 2, but this is a good
opportunity to improve that.

> 
> Thanks for the comments.  I've made these changes.  Should I resubmit
> it to the mailing list (inline this time)?

Yeah, that would be great.  You may get a bigger response if you cc'ed
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as well.

> - Eric
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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