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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] net: introduce helper sendpage_ok() in
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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.