On 08/11/2010 09:30 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It occurs so rarely that it's probably not worth bothering about, IMO. > I think the real question is if we want people to convert: if (copy_from_user(foo, bar, sizeof *foo)) return -EFAULT; ... into ... if (get_user(*foo, bar)) return -EFAULT; ... or ... rv = get_user(*foo, bar); if (rv) return rv; ... where *foo is a structure type. It does have the advantage that a single API does everything, simple or not, but has the disadvantage that the partial-access semantics are now less explicit. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html