From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, scsi-block-2.6] remove bio_map_user
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:41:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050620104114.GD15021@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050620103656.GA4164@lst.de>
On Mon, Jun 20 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:37:13PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 19 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > It's only used by blk_rq_map_user and that's the only sensible caller.
> >
> > That's not really true, there is/are valid uses of bio_map_user() alone.
>
> That would be?
Stacking drivers or file systems.
> >
> > > So do the iov wrapping there and kill bio_map_user.
> >
> > While I do agree with the change, I know of external users of
> > bio_map_user().
>
> Who's that?
ocfs2, iirc.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-20 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-19 9:29 [PATCH, scsi-block-2.6] remove bio_map_user Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-20 10:37 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-20 10:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-20 10:41 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-06-20 10:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-20 10:59 ` Jens Axboe
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