Re: RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages - loop device

>I did a patch which switched loop to use the file_operations.read/write >about a year ago. Forget what happened to it. It always seemed the right >thing to do.. This is unquestionably the right thing to do (at least compared to what we have now). The loop device driver has no business

Re: RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages - loop device

I did a patch which switched loop to use the file_operations.read/write about a year ago. Forget what happened to it. It always seemed the right thing to do.. This is unquestionably the right thing to do (at least compared to what we have now). The loop device driver has no business assuming