Re: [PATCH 4/4] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups

[christoph]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:28:04AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> I know its not something you're introducing here, but the naming
> convention do_sync_read/do_sync_write is pretty confused (with it
> not actually being a sync write and all, in the usual case).
> Any chance that could be renamed to something thats a bit clearer,
> maybe generic_file_non_aio_read and generic_file_non_aio_write?
> There don't seem to be many callsites (so not a huge change) and
> it'd seem a good time to do it, alongside these other changes.

I agree that the current naming is rather odd.  generic_file_* on the
other hand would be completely wrong  - generic_file_* are the generic
pagecache routines, these are wrappers to use ->aio_read/->aio_write.

Currently I can't imagine a better name, though.

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