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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2022-09-15 20:25:47 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2022-11-25 13:01:55 -0500
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use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers
READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are "data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as "we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly the wrong way. Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder to misinterpret... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 2e3134b14ffd..87fc3d0dda98 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ enum iter_type {
ITER_UBUF,
};
+#define ITER_SOURCE 1 // == WRITE
+#define ITER_DEST 0 // == READ
+
struct iov_iter_state {
size_t iov_offset;
size_t count;