linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.27-rc1: IP: iov_iter

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807301442130.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:44:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
cc:	akpm@...uxfoundation.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc1: IP: iov_iter_advance+0x2e/0x90

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > 
> > So does this (hacky, ugly) patch fix it for you?
> 
> You forgot "untested".

I'm trying to teach people to just take my patches for granted as being 
untested. I think there is more shock value when I actually claim one of 
my patches is actually _tested_, so I guess I'll just emphasize that part 
in case it ever happens (and ok, it did happen for the cpu_mask thing).

> And, yes, it helps.

Ok, I'll commit it as obvious, ugly as it may be. And hope that Nick or 
some other god of iov_iter will think about trying to make these things 
more reliable and easier to use.

		Linus
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