> > Until 2.3.7 all file writes were serialized by the 'inode semaphore', ie.
> > one big write excluded all other writers until the big write finished.
>
> Is this true for char devices too. If so its a welcome change but there
> are a lot of drivers that need fixing 8)
yes 8) The 'easy fix' is to down()/up() the inode semaphore manually in
all the ->write functions. We might want to intentionally 'break' the
file_ops API right now so that these assumption changes get caught
automatically?
-- mingo
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