Re: changed read/write interface breaks sound-I/O

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
30 Oct 1997 07:48:42 GMT

Followup to: <wshga219h3.fsf@orcus.priv.at>
By author: Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 2.1.60 removed the inode-pointer from the parameters of the "read" and
> "write" file_operations. This breaks I/O to sound-devices (soundcard.c
> relies on the old interface) and probably other things.
>
> What would be the canonical way to get at the inode from a `struct file
> *file'? "file->f_dentry->d_inode"?
>

Yes.

-hpa

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