[Yaffs] Reinstate sendfile method

Todd Poynor tpoynor at mvista.com
Wed Jan 25 01:15:48 GMT 2006


Todd Poynor wrote:
> YAFFS1 codebase provides a sendfile method while YAFFS2 does not.  Any
> reason not to?  Without it, loopback mounts of files in yaffs fails.
> Suggested patch below has been minimally sanity tested with a loopback
> mount of a VFAT filesystem contained in a YAFFS file (which hints as to
> why folks want to do this -- bad block aware FAT).
> 
> Thanks -- Todd
> 
> Index: yaffs_fs.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/aleph1/cvs/yaffs2/yaffs_fs.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.38
> diff -u -r1.38 yaffs_fs.c
> --- yaffs_fs.c	15 Dec 2005 20:27:56 -0000	1.38
> +++ yaffs_fs.c	5 Jan 2006 21:16:12 -0000
> @@ -171,6 +171,10 @@
>  	.mmap = generic_file_mmap,
>  	.flush = yaffs_file_flush,
>  	.fsync = yaffs_sync_object,
> +#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0))
> +	.sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
> +#endif
> +
>  };
>  
>  static struct inode_operations yaffs_file_inode_operations = {

Committed.


-- 
Todd



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