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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2023 01:12:44 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v20 09/32] tty, proc, kernfs, random: Use
 direct_splice_read()
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On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 08:40:24AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>  	.fasync = random_fasync,
>  	.llseek = noop_llseek,
> -	.splice_read = generic_file_splice_read,
> +	.splice_read = direct_splice_read,

Pinging Al (and maybe Linus): is there any good reason to not simply
default to direct_splice_read if ->read_iter is implemented and
->splice_read is not once you remove ITER_PIPE?  As long as we
assure direct_splice_read is simply a ->read_iter into newly
allocated pages I can't think of anything that would go wrong there.