linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] use less confusing names for iov

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Date:   Sun, 30 Oct 2022 05:01:39 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, willy@...radead.org,
        dchinner@...hat.com, Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
        Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@...il.com>,
        Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@...il.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] use less confusing names for iov_iter direction
 initializers

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 01:34:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:30 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Went through the callers, replaced each with the right ITER_... (there's
> > not that many of them and they are fairly easy to review), then went
> > through mismatches and split their fixups into the beginning of the
> > series (READ -> ITER_SOURCE becoming READ -> WRITE -> ITER_SOURCE, that
> > is).
> 
> Oh, ok. So if you've actually reviewed each and every one of them,
> then I'm ok with the "abort".
> 
> I still want it to be a WARN_ON_ONCE(), because of any future addition
> that gets things wrong.

Sure, np; branch updated and pushed out - the only difference is that
11/12 adds WARN_ON_ONCE instead of WARN_ON, so no point reposting, IMO...