On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 09:11:57PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This series adds two new helpers to easily read from and write to > arbitrary iov_iter structures and switches the loop driver and target file > backend to use those with bio_vecs. > > Using bio_vecs directly avoids the need to kmap individual elements in > the callers, which is epecially important in the target driver, and also > gets rid of the horrible splice code abuse hack in the loop driver. > > Changes since V1: > - rebase ontop of viro/for-next > - changed the helpers to read/write any iov_iter, and use > iov_iter_bvec to build those > - return -EINVAL if ->read_iter/->write_iter aren't present > instead of -EBADFD > - use kcalloc in the target patch > - add a patch to rewrite the target WRITE SAME emulation Applied, with iov_iter_bvec() direction argument matching the actual direction of copying intended. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
