From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ig0-f175.google.com (mail-ig0-f175.google.com [209.85.213.175]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0510680F84 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:38:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ig0-f175.google.com with SMTP id z14so115657940igp.1 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:38:16 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160112022548.GD6033@dastard> References: <80934665e0dd2360e2583522c7c7569e5a92be0e.1452549431.git.bcrl@kvack.org> <20160112011128.GC6033@dastard> <20160112022548.GD6033@dastard> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:38:15 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/13] aio: enabled thread based async fsync From: Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dave Chinner Cc: Benjamin LaHaise , linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux API , linux-mm , Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > > That's a different interface. So is openat. So is readahead. My point is that this idiotic "let's expose special cases" must end. It's broken. It inevitably only exposes a subset of what different people would want. Making "aio_read()" and friends a special interface had historical reasons for it. But expanding willy-nilly on that model does not. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org