Re: [PATCH] mmap: restore -ENODEV on missing f_op->mmap

[Jeff Mahoney]

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Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>>>  Personally, I think this is probably a case of LTP codifying existing
>>>  behavior rather than testing the for the specification. If that's the case
>>>  and nobody really cares about the change in behavior, I'm fine letting this
>>>  drop.
>> Hmm.. I think it's kind of stupid adding that special case early on, just 
>> to get one particular error case return when there are multiple possible 
>> ones. 
>>
>> I don't care deeply, but this does smell like a test issue rather than a 
>> code issue.
>>
>> Looking at that path, there are *other* things that might be worth 
>> cleaning up, but this wasn't one of them..
> 
> 
> Jeff, will you (at least) notify the LTP project of this issue and
> need for a patch?

Sure. I'll send that out tonight or tomorrow morning.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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