Re: [Jfs-discussion] [PATCH V6 18/30] fs: add read_iter and write_iter to several file systems

[Artem B. <ded...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 10:23 -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> -       .aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
> -       .aio_write = generic_file_aio_write,
> +       .read_iter = generic_file_read_iter,
> +       .write_iter = generic_file_write_iter, 

The new names a lot less self-documenting than the old ones - I read
them as "read iteration", because "iter" is often used for "iteration",
and this gives me no clue that they are related to AIO...

I apologize if this was already discussed, but why did you choose
"iter"?

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Artem Bityutskiy