[ofw] [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] winmad kernel filter driver

Hal Rosenstock hrosenstock at xsigo.com
Wed Jul 2 09:31:35 PDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:26 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> >Does this interface handle MAD SAR, such that a read retrieves an entire MAD?
> 
> It does.  If the read is not large enough to retrieve an entire MAD, the size
> that is needed is returned to the user.  The read can then be retried using a
> larger buffer.  

Cool! That's exactly how it works in Linux; I'm sure you knew that :-)

> You may be able to do something fancy with overlapped offsets to
> retrieve a MAD in chunks, but I did not implement that.
> 
> - Sean
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