Re: [PATCH 2/4] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 06:00:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces
> >  them with aio_read()/aio_write() methods.
> 
> And it breaks autofs4
> 
> autofs: pipe file descriptor does not contain proper ops

this comes because the autofs4 pipe fd doesn't have a write file
operations.

Badari do you remember any place in your patches where you didn't
add do_sync_write for a file_operations instance?

Ian, what kind of file is the autofs4 pipe?  is it a named pipe or
a fifo or a "real" file?
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