On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 02:55:17PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > > import_iovec() has a 'pointer by reference' parameter to pass in the > (on-stack) iov[] cache and return the address of a larger copy that > the caller must free. > This is non-intuitive, faffy to setup, and not that efficient. > Instead just pass in the address of the cache and return the address > to free (on success) or PTR_ERR() (on error). To me it seems pretty sensible, and in fact the conversions to your new API seem to add more lines than they remove.
