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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:16:41 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> > I would say - if you are picking a new flag that doesn't need to have
> > compatibility with any platform-specific existing flag, simply set them
> > all high enough so that they are the same on all platforms.
> 
> Doesn't really matter, you can't run x86 binaries on MIPS so
> you need to recompile anyway.
> 
> Source level compatibility is enough for flags like this.

Using the _same_ flag on different architectures can simplify the
kernel source, though.  Just imagine, a set of O_* definitions in
<linux/fcntl.h> instead of them being duplicated, with different
definitions, throughout <asm-*/fcntl.h>.

-- Jamie
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