linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP

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Date:   Sat, 23 Jan 2021 16:33:34 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, io-uring@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_GETDENTS64

On 1/23/21 4:27 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 01:41:52PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
>> IORING_OP_GETDENTS64 behaves like getdents64(2) and takes the same
> 
> Could we drop the '64'?  We don't, for example, have IOURING_OP_FADVISE64
> even though that's the name of the syscall.

Agreed, only case we do mimic the names are for things like
IORING_OP_OPENAT2 where it does carry meaning. For this one, it should
just be IORING_OP_GETDENTS.

-- 
Jens Axboe