Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 revert block_llseek behavior to standard

Phil Auld (pauld@egenera.com)
Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:57:01 -0400

Rumor has it that on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:14:08PM +0100 Alan Cox said:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 17:36, Phil Auld wrote:
> > > Political I don't see any. Technical - have you verified each of our
> > > block drivers behaves correctly when given an offset over its side, and
> > > that it correctly fails on a 32bit block wrap.
> > >
> >
> > No, but how did it work prior to 2.4.11?
>
> Did it work correctly - the answer I believe is - no it didnt.
>

Fair enough. The higher level fix is a band-aid over bugs in some of
the lower level drivers.

Thanks for the info. I didn't think that patch would go anywhere,
but it did help explain why the change.

Phil

>
> Alan

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