From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FB5C433DF for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:18:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A8F2065F for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:18:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="um7wejtO" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726121AbgGZPSU (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2020 11:18:20 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:49592 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725982AbgGZPSU (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2020 11:18:20 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8598BC0619D2; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 08:18:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=cYcLOt9xMtmqE1IKx7EJ1yVFnTZAqfZV+W0fuS8FqWc=; b=um7wejtOBrnxldoh/n2UwYzdJD D9kN+dcL/MsT/0uG9sGqD8xfLD9J1OZl36V8NSMrE09UsBqvu5cey9jY62V9FZ+l0rfWlK2XivUQ5 IvH8MMhKTIuHmlxZTP2YzPDzfb5cybiixpKPU2L9yzQiyshm67sAIyAYZaS1u71ZYizWOSQI2tkmZ xodRaLGMMyE5//vKS2Hmbd9saln6jEn3qGiPpEk7V7s8dupqyhTmcTeO0EMJ46MGFeeOVY9yWVlOK 5sIRSUu6VFjVOx2zaDKoQcIzXsKhsm/LzpkqVbNsWq0dmTLKOFGVKdOx0MexfeDq26NjNefxjkUDA 2+7zsW2w==; Received: from hch by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1jziPi-0006ej-M1; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:18:10 +0000 Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:18:10 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Kanchan Joshi Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, bcrl@kvack.org, willy@infradead.org, hch@infradead.org, Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com, asml.silence@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Selvakumar S , Nitesh Shetty , Javier Gonzalez Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] fs: introduce FMODE_ZONE_APPEND and IOCB_ZONE_APPEND Message-ID: <20200726151810.GA25328@infradead.org> References: <1595605762-17010-1-git-send-email-joshi.k@samsung.com> <1595605762-17010-2-git-send-email-joshi.k@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1595605762-17010-2-git-send-email-joshi.k@samsung.com> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-api-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Zone append is a protocol context that ha not business showing up in a file system interface. The right interface is a generic way to report the written offset for an append write for any kind of file. So we should pick a better name like FMODE_REPORT_APPEND_OFFSET (not that I particularly like that name, but it is the best I could quickly come up with).