From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.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 12:42:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050620104229.GB4246@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050620104114.GD15021@suse.de>
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:41:14PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > That would be?
>
> Stacking drivers or file systems.
Doesn't make sense, a stacking driver must not deal with locking down
user memory at all, and for filesystem there's better helpers in
fs/direct-io.c
> > > While I do agree with the change, I know of external users of
> > > bio_map_user().
> >
> > Who's that?
>
> ocfs2, iirc.
ocfs2 doesn't use bio_map_user
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-20 10:42 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
2005-06-20 10:42 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-06-20 10:59 ` Jens Axboe
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