Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:23:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] direct-IO API change |
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Because the file handle which we have is for /dev/raw/raw0, > not for /dev/hda1. > > The raw driver binds to major/minor, not a file*. I considered > changing that (change userspace to pass the open fd). But didn't.
Ok. I'd really rather have a cleaner internal API and break the raw driver for a while, than have a silly API just because the raw driver uses it.
Especially since I thought that O_DIRECT on the regular file (or block device) performed about as well as raw does anyway these days? Or is that just one of my LSD-induced flashbacks?
Linus
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