Re: [git pull] iov_iter fixes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 9:56 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What's the point of all those contortions, anyway?  You only need it for
> iovec case; don't mix doing that and turning it into flavour-independent
> primitive.

Good point, making it specific to iovec only gets rid of a lot of
special cases and worries.

This is fairly specialized, no need to always cater to every possible case.

               Linus