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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 8/8] block: mark BIO_MAX_SIZE as obsolete
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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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On 05/30/2016 07:34 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> Some in-tree drivers may use big bio which size is more
> than BIO_MAX_SIZE, also the macro is seldom used in tree.
>
> So mark it as obsolete now, and it doesn't make sense
> after multipage bvec is introduced.

Is it used in the tree after the patchset? If not, kill it, there's no 
such thing as a deprecated/obsolete define.

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Jens Axboe