Re: [patch 1/3] fs: add an iovec iterator

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Feb 08 2007 - 14:50:28 EST


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.

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