From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10 v11] No wait AIO
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:55:41 -0700
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To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Which flags are you talking about?  aio ones?  AFAICS, it's the same
> kind of thing as "can we lseek?" or "can we read/pread?", etc.
> What would that field look like?  Note that some of those might depend
> upon the flags passed to open(), so shoving them into file_operations
> might mean splitting file_operations instances...  Details, please.

Yeah, I'll take my suggestion back.