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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: stop using ->read and ->write for kernel access v3
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 01:24:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:48 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Al and Linus (and Stephen, see below),
> >
> > as part of removing set_fs entirely (for which I have a working
> > prototype), we need to stop calling ->read and ->write with kernel
> > pointers under set_fs.
> 
> I'd be willing to pick up patches 1-6 as trivial and obvious cleanups
> right now, if you sent those to me as a pull request. That would at
> least focus the remaining series a bit on the actual changes..

If we do that we should do 1-7 and 9-12 to include the read side as
well.  But yes, maybe that way we'll get started.