Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261313AbVBFUnD (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:43:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261314AbVBFUnD (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:43:03 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:26286 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261313AbVBFUm7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:42:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:42:36 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Anton Altaparmakov Cc: nathans@sgi.com, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages. Message-Id: <20050206124236.264f0cd4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050202143422.41c29202.akpm@osdl.org> <1107427057.9010.18.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> <20050203024755.1792b6c0.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 758 Lines: 20 Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I did a patch which switched loop to use the file_operations.read/write > > about a year ago. Forget what happened to it. It always seemed the right > > thing to do.. > > How did you implement the write? It was Urban, actually. Memory fails me. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=102133217310200&w=2 It won't work properly for crypto transformations - iirc we decided it would need to perform a copy. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/