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SubjectRe: [PATCH v19 09/15] iov_iter: Kill ITER_PIPE
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 04:35:43PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> The ITER_PIPE-type iterator was only used for generic_file_splice_read(),
> but that has now been switched to either pull pages directly from the
> pagecache for buffered file splice-reads or to use ITER_BVEC instead for
> O_DIRECT file splice-reads. This leaves ITER_PIPE unused - so remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> ---

That is a good simplification,
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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