Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >
> > this patch adds a "struct file *" argument to direct I/O. this is needed
> > by NFS direct I/O to make the file's credentials available to direct I/O
> > subroutines. we can't remove "struct inode *" yet because the raw driver
> > still needs it.
>
> Why isn't the raw driver changed to just use file->f_dentry->d_inode
> instead?
>
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.
An alternative would be to rewrite i_mapping for /dev/raw/raw0
to be bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping. I guess we should look at doing
that.
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