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Date:   Thu, 6 Jul 2023 08:31:51 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/11] iov_iter: Drop iov_iter_rw() and fold in last
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 04:25:21PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Drop the last usage of iov_iter_rw() into __iov_iter_get_pages_alloc().

Well, if we can't just drop this check entirely, the rest of the prep
work is just churn and not actually very useful.  Shouldn't we go
all the way and kill ITER_DEST/SOURCE?