Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/10] iov_iter: Add new iters and use with AFS | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:05:46 +0100 |
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Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> It might serve to replace iov_iter_zero().
I don't think it can work like that. iov_iter_zero() writes zeros into an iterator someone else set up.
To use ITER_ZERO, you'd be setting up the iterator and passing it to someone else to comsume. I think these are at opposite ends of the concept.
David
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