linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] lib/printbuf: New data structure for heap-allocated strings

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Date:   Fri, 22 Apr 2022 01:14:48 -0400
From:   Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...xchg.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] lib/printbuf: New data structure for
 heap-allocated strings

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 06:20:17AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I still see absolutel no reason to bloat the kernel with a duplicate
> of the existing seq_buf functionality.  Please use that and improve it
> where needed for your use case.

Christoph, you have no problem making more work for me but I can't even get you
to look at the bugs you introuduce in your refactorings that I report to you.

Still waiting on you to look at oops you introduced in bio_copy_data_iter...