linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/3] fs: add an iovec iterator

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Message-ID: <20070208194953.GA4118@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:49:53 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fs: add an iovec iterator

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:07:24PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Add an iterator data structure to operate over an iovec. Add usercopy
> operators needed by generic_file_buffered_write, and convert that function
> over.

iovec_iterator is an awfully long and not very descriptive name.
In past discussions we named this thingy iodesc and wanted to pass it
down all the I/O path, including the file operations.

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