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Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:45:14 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 06/34] iov_iter: Use the direction in the iterator
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:28:28PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 11:58:16PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 11:08:44PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > > Use the direction in the iterator functions rather than READ/WRITE.
> > 
> > I don't think we need the direction at all as nothing uses it any more.
> 
> ... except for checks in copy_from_iter() et.al.

Debug checks, yes.