Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423288AbXBHTt4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:49:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423282AbXBHTt4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:49:56 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:45538 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423288AbXBHTty (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:49:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:49:53 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linux Filesystems , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fs: add an iovec iterator Message-ID: <20070208194953.GA4118@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Nick Piggin , Linux Filesystems , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton References: <20070208105437.26443.35653.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070208105446.26443.35864.sendpatchset@linux.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070208105446.26443.35864.sendpatchset@linux.site> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 14 On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:07:24PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Add an iterator data structure to operate over an iovec. Add usercopy > operators needed by generic_file_buffered_write, and convert that function > over. iovec_iterator is an awfully long and not very descriptive name. In past discussions we named this thingy iodesc and wanted to pass it down all the I/O path, including the file operations. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/