From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261249AbULFNsu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:48:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261516AbULFNsu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:48:50 -0500 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.132]:2450 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261249AbULFNss (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:48:48 -0500 From: Kevin Corry To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: 2.6: drivers/md/dm-io.c partially copies bio.c Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:48:51 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe References: <20041206120941.GB7250@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20041206120941.GB7250@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412060748.51047.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Adrian, On Monday 06 December 2004 6:09 am, Adrian Bunk wrote: > drivers/md/dm-io.c copies functionality from bio.c . > > Is there a specific reason why you don't simply use the functionality > bio.c provides? Can you give some specific examples of the functionality you think is duplicated? Meanwhile, I'll take a look and see if I can explain any code overlaps. -- Kevin Corry kevcorry@us.ibm.com http://evms.sourceforge.net/