Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752227AbWCCJiW (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 04:38:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752229AbWCCJiW (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 04:38:22 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:14471 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752225AbWCCJiV (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 04:38:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] adjust /dev/{kmem,mem,port} write handlers From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jan Beulich Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <44081B03.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> References: <44081B03.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:38:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1141378697.2883.39.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 14 On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:31 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > The /dev/mem and /dev/kmem write handlers weren't fully POSIX compliant in > that they wouldn't always force the file pointer to be updated when returning > success status. should we instead just remove the /dev/mem and/or /dev/kmem write handlers entirely? - 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/