Re: Dovetail/Evl confusion on my end

Philippe Gerum <[email protected]> writes:

> Florian Bezdeka <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Hi Philippe,
>>
>> I just recognized that you updated the source of my rebase branches
>> meanwhile, so v7.0-dovetail-rebase (for dovetail) and next/v7.0-evl-
>> rebase for evl.
>>
>> While syncing the missing pieces I noticed that commit 
>> ad7e492ff2 ("/dev/{null, zero}: dovetail: drop deprecated .write handler ") 
>> is part of v7.0-evl-rebase but is not part of v7.0-dovetail-rebase.
>>
>> Why is that? Any specific reason?
>>
>
> I pushed this patch yesterday, and wanted to have some hindsight about
> it for a couple of (testing) days of the evl tree. I believe it is
> correct, but given the patched area, better safe than sorry. I plan to
> merge it last on top of 7.0-dovetail.

To elaborate a bit more, this patch only helps evl strictly speaking, by
preventing stdout/err redirections through proxies to cause a kernel
warning, which in fact reveals that some portion of the upstream code
(namely the /null and /zero cdevs at least) are still using a deprecated
file_operations handler, which the VFS complains about when using the
kernel interface to write to them.

-- 
Philippe.