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

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Feb 08 2007 - 20:47:02 EST


On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:49:53PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Hi Christoph,

Sure I think it would be a good idea to shorten the name. And yes, although
I just construct the iterator to pass into perform_write, I think it should
make sense to go much further up the call stack instead of passing all those
args around. iodesc seems like a fine name, so I'll use that unless
anyone objects.


Thanks,
Nick
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