Re: [PATCH 1/6] seq_file: add seq_read_iter

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Nov 15 2020 - 11:57:09 EST


On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 7:54 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> OK, I think I understand what's going on. Could you check if
> reverting the variant in -next and applying the following instead
> fixes what you are seeing?

Side note: if this ends up working, can you add a lot of comments
about this thing (both in the code and the commit message)? It
confused both Christoph and me, and clearly you were stumped too.
That's not a great sign.

Linus