From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] iov_iter fixes
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:58:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiPEZypYDnoDF7mRE=u1y6E_etmCTuOx3v2v6a_Wj=z3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YTuOPAFvGpayTBpp@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 9:56 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> What's the point of all those contortions, anyway? You only need it for
> iovec case; don't mix doing that and turning it into flavour-independent
> primitive.
Good point, making it specific to iovec only gets rid of a lot of
special cases and worries.
This is fairly specialized, no need to always cater to every possible case.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-10 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-09 4:22 [git pull] iov_iter fixes Al Viro
2021-09-09 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-09 21:19 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-09 21:39 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-09 21:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-09 22:21 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-09 22:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 1:35 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 2:43 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 2:48 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 3:06 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 3:15 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 3:23 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 3:24 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 3:28 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-13 15:29 ` David Laight
2021-09-09 21:42 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-10 2:57 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 3:05 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 3:11 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 3:22 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 3:27 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 3:30 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 3:36 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 13:57 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 14:42 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 15:08 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 15:32 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 15:36 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 15:04 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 16:06 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 16:56 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 16:58 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-09-10 17:26 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 17:32 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 18:48 ` Al Viro
2021-09-10 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-10 19:10 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-10 17:04 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-09 22:54 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-09-09 22:57 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-09-09 23:14 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-09-09 20:03 ` pr-tracker-bot
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