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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox•com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: maxim@de•ibm.com, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs•org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RTAS - adapt procfs interface
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:54:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080402185451.GT7137@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18419.29333.344126.231799@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Nathan Lynch writes:
> 
> > I think this is better... the way these files are used is lame, but
> > this should preserve the existing behavior.  I haven't yet tested
> > this, can you?
> 
> Looks OK -- can I have a proper patch description and a signed-off-by
> line for this please?

Actually, my patch has the potentially undesirable consequence of
allowing only one of the three flash-related proc files to be open at
any time, whereas the previous behavior enforced exclusive open on a
per-file basis.

If you want something for 2.6.25, I think the patch Jens posted is
of lower risk.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-02 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-01 13:12 [PATCH] RTAS - adapt procfs interface Jens Osterkamp
2008-04-01 16:35 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-04-01 20:04   ` Nathan Lynch
2008-04-02 11:34     ` Jens Osterkamp
2008-04-02 11:48     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-04-02 18:54       ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2008-04-02 11:33   ` Jens Osterkamp
2008-04-04  0:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-04  5:39   ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-04  9:15     ` Christoph Hellwig

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