Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I suspect the best is to: > > - rename init_sync_kiocb to init_kiocb > - pass a new argument for the destination Do you mean the direction rather than the destination? > to it. I'm not entirely > sure if flags is a good thing, or an explicit READ/WRITE might be > better because it's harder to get wrong, even if a the compiler > might generate worth code for it. > - also use it in the async callers (io_uring, aio, overlayfs, loop, > nvmet, target, cachefs, file backed swap) David