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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:51:52 +0100
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
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       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] fs: add an iovec iterator
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:38:12PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Add an iterator data structure to operate over an iovec. Add usercopy
> operators needed by generic_file_buffered_write, and convert that function
> over.

Just a note to anyone looking at these -- they don't apply to any tree,
and I'm posting them at this stage mainly to get feedback on the a_ops
APIs. Comments from anyone welcome.