On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Zytaruk, Kelly <kelly.zyta...@amd.com> wrote: > I noticed that the parameter ordering to kernel_read() changed from Linux > kernel v4.13 to v4.14 when the function was moved into fs/read_write.c from > exec.c > > 4.13.15 - int kernel_read(struct file *file, loff_t offset, char *addr, > unsigned long count) > > 4.14.1 - ssize_t kernel_read(struct file *file, void *buf, size_t count, > loff_t *pos) > > I am still on the learning curve so I would like to understand why this was > done instead of keeping the same ordering.
My guess is that it matches the syscall read() more closely.
