On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kir...@shutemov.name> wrote:
>
> AFAIK, accessing files on filesystem form kernel directly was no-go for a
> long time. What's the new rule here?
Oh, we've *always* accessed files from the kernel.
What we don't want is random drivers doing so directly and without a
good abstraction layer, because that just ends up being a total
nightmare.
Still, they've done that too. Ugh. Too many drivers having random
hacks like that.
Linus
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