On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:04:11AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > mm... I don't think we should be adding placeholders to the kernel API > to support code which hasn't been written, tested, reviewed, merged, > etc. It's possible none of this will ever happen and we end up with a > syscall nobody needs or uses. Plus it's always possible that during > this development we decide the pwrite2() interface needs alteration but > it's too late. > > What would be the downside of deferring pwrite2() until it's all > implemented? It _is_ implemented. I just decided to submit it separately as Miklos already has to deal with enough bikeshedding for his feature that I don't want to put the burden of dealing with the BS for the one I wrote on him. -- 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
