On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 06:11:02PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > Was Al Viro's comment on qib addressed here? That would be a
> > showstopper for me..
> 
> Do you have a link to this comment?  I'm missing a bunch of messages from 
> this thread and can't find anything from Al in the logs.

Author: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Apr 4 00:11:32 2015 -0400

    infinibad: weird APIs switched to ->write_iter()
    
        Things Not To Do When Writing A Driver, part 1001st:
    have writev() and write() on the same file doing completely
    different things.  As in, "interpret very different sets of
    commands".
    
        We _can_ handle that, but it's a bloody bad idea.
    Don't do that in new drivers.  Ever.
    
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

Jasn
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