From: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:03:51 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2
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Karim Yaghmour writes:
 > 
 > Tom Zanussi wrote:
 > > OK, makes sense to me - I'll get rid of relay_reserve and replace it
 > > with the simple putc write and variant.
 > 
 > Please don't do that. Instead, bring back the ad-hoc mode code, that's
 > what is was for anyway.
 > 

I don't think they need to be mutually exclusive - we could keep
relay_reserve(), but the relay_write() that's currently built on top
of relay_reserve() would use the putc code instead.  It's complicating
the API a bit, but if it makes everyone happy...

Tom

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