Patch: HFS structure alignment fix for ARM

2000-05-14 Thread Russell King
Linus et al, Here is a patch which allows HFS to be used on ARM, which packs the structure members. It has been tested a good few months ago, and I've not had any complaints from it being in there from the ARM community (someone actually uses HFS on ARM!) Anyway, I'd like to get this in before

Re: Proposal: int (permission*)(struct dentry *, int)

2000-05-14 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:37:46AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: devfs_unlink() does - especially in free_dentries(). Or you can get your kicks looking at the crap (sorry, Petr, but it _is_ crap - populating dcache really shouldn't be done by readdir()) in ncp_readdir(). Hi Alexander, is

PATCH: Rewrite of truncate_inode_pages

2000-05-14 Thread Juan J. Quintela
Hi I have just rewrite the function truncate_inode_pages, it did busy waiting for the partial page, with the new rewrite, we do the same locking for normal pages and the partial pages. This will help in having less special cases. Comments? Later, Juan. PD. This mail is also sent to