Re: [PATCH 15/23] seq_file: switch over direct seq_read method calls to seq_read_iter

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 11:09:13PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Needs some thought and maybe some cocci help from Julia, but that's way
> better than this brute force sed thing which results in malformed crap
> like this:
> 
> static const struct file_operations debug_stats_fops = {
> 	.open		= debug_stats_open,
> 	.read_iter		= seq_read_iter,
> 	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
> 	.release	= single_release,
> };
> 
> and proliferates the copy and paste voodoo programming.

Better copy and paste than templates, IMO; at least the former is
greppable; fucking DEFINE_..._ATRIBUTE is *NOT*, especially due
to the use of ##.