Re: [PATCH 08/17] {macvtap,tun}_get_user(): switch to iov_iter

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 00:27 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 04:33 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
[...]
> Does skb_copy_datagram_from_iter() really need a len parameter?  Here it
> is equal to iov_iter_count(from).
[...]
> Again len is equal to iov_iter_count(from), so I think that parameter is
> redundant.

Having read further patches, I see that unix_stream_sendmsg() is the one
exception where the length parameter is different.  But maybe the common
case (len = iter_iov_count(iov)) deserves a wrapper function?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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