Re: [PATCH v6 12/13] block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:04:09AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio
> set; as a result various users were open coding it and using
> __bio_clone().
> 
> This changes bio_clone() to become bio_clone_bioset(), and then we add
> bio_clone() and bio_clone_kmalloc() as wrappers around it, making use of
> the functionality the last patch adedd.
> 
> This will also help in a later patch changing how bio cloning works.

I'd prefer simply adding @bioset to bio_clone() so that the caller
always has to make the choice consciously.  We're updating all the
callers anyway.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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