| commit | 07d66921337176e9d27e4d0a8a23425c8284a381 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> | Fri Jul 18 09:15:40 2014 -0600 |
| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | Mon Jul 21 21:37:06 2014 -0700 |
| tree | 84880064d92c2f597d0dd5622f7469d96f0372b3 | |
| parent | e7fbaf016e917a14b5cbed7a724e0a45338700ee [diff] |
sparc: Add support for seek and shorter read to /dev/mdesc /dev/mdesc on Linux does not support reading arbitrary number of bytes and seeking while /dev/mdesc on Solaris does. This causes tools that work on Solaris to break on Linux. This patch adds these two capabilities to /dev/mdesc. Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>