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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, scsi-block-2.6] remove bio_map_user
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:42:29 +0200
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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