Re: [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN

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On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 07:09:58PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 09:40:07AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > +stx_dio_offset_align
> > > +which must be provided by the file system.
> > 
> > I can't imagine a filesystem where dio_read_offset > dio_offset makes
> > sense, but why do we need to put that in the manpage?
> 
> Well, to be backwards compatible to older userspace the value put into
> stx_dio_offset_align also needs to work for reads.  Given that there
> were questions about this in the RFC round I thought I'd mention it.

Ah ok then. :)

With the other formatting nits fixed,
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

--D





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