On 9/10/21 10:58 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 9:56 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> What's the point of all those contortions, anyway? You only need it for >> iovec case; don't mix doing that and turning it into flavour-independent >> primitive. > > Good point, making it specific to iovec only gets rid of a lot of > special cases and worries. > > This is fairly specialized, no need to always cater to every possible case. Alright, split into three patches: https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/log/?h=iov_iter If this looks reasonable (Al/Linus), then I'll send it out officially with git send-email as well. -- Jens Axboe
