From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
tytso@mit.edu, Jason@zx2c4.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/2] Fix splice from random/urandom
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 08:02:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220520060244.GA16503@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83183894-155a-efe7-ea0d-a3d88ebeadb1@kernel.dk>
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 01:55:26PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I'm a bit torn on this one, because I _really_ want us to get rid of
> read/write and make everything use read_iter/write_iter. Firstly because
> it's really stupid to have two interfaces, and secondly because even
> basic things like "can we block here" doesn't work in the older
> interface without fiddling with file flags which is a non-starter for
> certain things.
Converting everything was my initial plan, but Linus said no and just
fix whatever breaks. And compared to my initial fears the fallout
actually isn't that bad.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-20 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-19 19:31 [PATCHSET 0/2] Fix splice from random/urandom Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 19:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] random: convert to using fops->read_iter() Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:12 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:20 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:21 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:21 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:21 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 19:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] random: wire up fops->splice_read_iter() Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 19:48 ` [PATCHSET 0/2] Fix splice from random/urandom Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-19 19:55 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 6:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-05-20 12:51 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 20:05 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 20:49 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 21:02 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:15 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:22 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:25 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:33 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:39 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:44 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:13 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:19 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:23 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:25 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:27 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:57 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 0:00 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-20 0:02 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 0:48 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-20 0:56 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 1:00 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-20 1:05 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 1:10 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 12:43 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-20 12:49 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 13:04 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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