Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] net: introduce helper sendpage_ok() in include/linux/net.h

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Sep 23 2020 - 04:43:10 EST


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:22:05PM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
> On 2020/8/19 03:49, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:33:37AM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
> >> On 2020/8/19 00:24, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>> I think we should go for something simple like this instead:
> >>
> >> This idea is fine to me. Should a warning message be through here? IMHO
> >> the driver still sends an improper page in, fix it in silence is too
> >> kind or over nice to the buggy driver(s).
> >
> > I don't think a warning is a good idea. An API that does the right
> > thing underneath and doesn't require boiler plate code in most callers
> > is the right API.
> >
>
> Then I don't have more comment.

So given the feedback from Dave I suspect we should actually resurrect
this series, sorry for the noise. And in this case I think we do need
the warning in kernel_sendpage.