Re: [PATCH 1/5] block: rewrite blk_bvec_map_sg to avoid a nth_page call

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:08:47AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> That is besides the point. Your code changes an internal API to be more
> stringent and less forgiving. This causes failures, presumably because
> callers of that API took advantage (on purpose or not) of it.
> When changing an API, you are responsible for both ends. You can not claim
> that the callers of that API are buggy. Taking advangage of a forgiving
> API is not a bug. If you change an API, and that change causes a failure,
> that is a regression, not a bug on the side of the caller.

As said I offered to fix these, even if this isn't my fault.  I'm also
still waiting for the the other reports.



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