On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That's a different interface. So is openat. So is readahead. My point is that this idiotic "let's expose special cases" must end. It's broken. It inevitably only exposes a subset of what different people would want. Making "aio_read()" and friends a special interface had historical reasons for it. But expanding willy-nilly on that model does not. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>