linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] seq_file: add seq_read

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wisaN3QOEYq6XBSKyW_74X5GhdbyE5AnbLkh9krarhDAA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 15 Nov 2020 08:56:44 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] seq_file: add seq_read_iter

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 7:54 AM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> OK, I think I understand what's going on.  Could you check if
> reverting the variant in -next and applying the following instead
> fixes what you are seeing?

Side note: if this ends up working, can you add a lot of comments
about this thing (both in the code and the commit message)? It
confused both Christoph and me, and clearly you were stumped too.
That's not a great sign.

                  Linus