linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: use helpers for calling f_op->{read,write}_iter() in read

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:17:52 +0800
From:   Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, brauner@...nel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: use helpers for calling f_op->{read,write}_iter() in
 read_write.c

on 8/28/2023 8:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:50:56PM +0800, Kemeng Shi wrote:
>> use helpers for calling f_op->{read,write}_iter() in read_write.c
>>
> 
> Why?  We really should just remove the completely pointless wrappers
> instead.
> 
This patch is intended to uniform how we call {read,write}_iter()...
Would it be good to opencode all call_{read,write}_iter. But I'm not sure
if these wrappers are really needless...