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Date:   Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:46:27 +0100
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 02:01:30PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> O_DIRECT is an interesting hack, has anyone seen if it violates the
> posix rules for us to use it on a character device like this?

Jiri only mentioned O_DIRECT as an example of a flag which we might be
able to repurpose/abuse for this. O_DIRECT is linux-specific, not in
POSIX, so we'd still end up with a Linux-specific interface if we were
to take this route.

Johan