Re: ->direct_IO API change in current 2.4 BK

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jul 09, 2003  20:29 +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> How about instead following Alan's suggestion to replace
> KERNEL_HAS_O_DIRECT with a KERNEL_HAS_O_DIRECT2 that can be used to
> switch between the old and new O_DIRECT format in the XFS patches?

Actually, I like that a lot more, as it allows out-of-tree code to
know which interface to use, and we don't have to key on kernel version
(which is bogus if compiling against a vendor kernel that back-ports
this fix).

Cheers, Andreas
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