On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:44:12AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:06:24AM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > This patch adds a new memcpy_fromiovec_out() library function which modifies > > the passed *iov following memcpy_fromiovec(), but also returns the next current > > iovec pointer via **iov_out. > > > > This is useful for vhost ANY_LAYOUT support when guests are allowed to generate > > incoming virtio request headers combined with subsequent SGL payloads into a > > single iovec. > > Please, don't. Just use copy_from_iter(); you are open-coding an uglier > variant of such. PS: see vfs.git#for-davem (or postings on netdev with the same stuff). I really hope to bury memcpy_...iovec...() crap for good; please, don't reintroduce more of it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
