[PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead

This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/read_write.h b/fs/read_write.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d07b954c6e0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/read_write.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/*
+ * This file is only for sharing some helpers from read_write.c with compat.c.
+ * Don't use anywhere else.
+ */
+
+
+typedef ssize_t (*io_fn_t)(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
+typedef ssize_t (*iov_fn_t)(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
+                unsigned long, loff_t);
+
+ssize_t do_sync_readv_writev(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
+                unsigned long nr_segs, size_t len, loff_t *ppos, iov_fn_t fn);
+ssize_t do_loop_readv_writev(struct file *filp, struct iovec *iov,
+                unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos, io_fn_t fn);