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Re: RFC: Remove swap file support

To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove swap file support
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:59:07 +1200
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,viro@math.psu.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:35:52AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

    I can't see how any device that doesn't support read or writing
    just a byte can be a character device.

Why not... -EINVAL if the read alignment or size is improper...



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References:
- Re: RFC: Remove swap file support
  - From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
- Re: RFC: Remove swap file support
  - From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
- Re: RFC: Remove swap file support
  - From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)

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