On 8/14/21 9:27 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 9:00 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> configfs fix for Linux 5.14 >> >> - fix to revert to the historic write behavior (Bart Van Assche) > > It would have been lovely to see what the problem was, but the commit > doesn't actually explain that. > > I suspect it's this > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/7/26/581 > > but there might have been more. Hi Linus, Bodo explained to me via a private email that the historic behavior is the behavior he needs for a patch that he is still working on. I'm not aware of any existing user space software that relies on the historic (non-POSIX) behavior of configfs writes. Bart.
