Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add a new LOOP_SET_FD_AND_STATUS ioctl

[Martijn Coenen]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:57 PM Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> and it allows requesting a partition scan. It makes sense to maintain
> that behavior, but what about LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO? I think you're
> proposing LOOP_SET_STATUS(64) should keep ignoring that like it used
> to?

I've just sent a v4 which basically implements that and your other suggestions.

Thanks,
Martijn

>
> Thanks,
> Martijn
>
> > and then in the main function reject anything not known.
> >
> > And then maybe add something like 64 bytes of padding to the end of the
> > new structure, so that we can use flags to expand to it.