Re: [PATCH] direct-IO API change

[Linus Torvalds]

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