From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: getting rid of ->splice_write? Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:30:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20140922173053.GA13109@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Al Viro Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:58452 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754291AbaIVRa4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:30:56 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Currently only /dev/null, fusedev and the socket code have a splice_write implementation that isn't iter_file_splice_write, and it seems like these three could easily be switched over if they implemented a ->write_iter. Similarly it seems to be like we could kill ->splice_read by implementing an equivalent iteration over ->read_iter.