Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:40:20 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] vfs: Non-blockling buffered fs read (page cache only) |
| |
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:04:11AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > mm... I don't think we should be adding placeholders to the kernel API > to support code which hasn't been written, tested, reviewed, merged, > etc. It's possible none of this will ever happen and we end up with a > syscall nobody needs or uses. Plus it's always possible that during > this development we decide the pwrite2() interface needs alteration but > it's too late. > > What would be the downside of deferring pwrite2() until it's all > implemented?
It _is_ implemented. I just decided to submit it separately as Miklos already has to deal with enough bikeshedding for his feature that I don't want to put the burden of dealing with the BS for the one I wrote on him.
| |