Re: [PATCH V8 11/33] dio: Convert direct_IO to use iov_iter

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Aug 23 2013 - 11:48:22 EST


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Change the direct_IO aop to take an iov_iter argument rather than an iovec.
> This will get passed down through most filesystems so that only the
> __blockdev_direct_IO helper need be aware of whether user or kernel memory
> is being passed to the function.

Lustre in -next also needs to be updated:

drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c:549: warning:
initialization from incompatible pointer type

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/