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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:58:44 -0700
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Subject: Re: [git pull] iov_iter fixes
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
        Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 9:56 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> What's the point of all those contortions, anyway?  You only need it for
> iovec case; don't mix doing that and turning it into flavour-independent
> primitive.

Good point, making it specific to iovec only gets rid of a lot of
special cases and worries.

This is fairly specialized, no need to always cater to every possible case.

               Linus