On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 08:19:13AM -0700, David Ahern wrote: > On 11/27/13, 4:57 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >Okay, I thought this was an intentional 'all or nothing' interface - > >but looking at the readn() users they can tolerate partial results > >just fine. > > I believe that is the intent -- an all or nothing interface.
all the users either checks the returned value with the size or do (ret < 0) and fail and one instance in the read_attr does not check anything and blindly hopes it will read all ;-) I have similar patch that also change callers to use proper ssize_t instead of int.. I can rebase and send it separately or combine it with yours.. let me know jirka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
