On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:07:16AM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote: > On 1/11/21 23:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I can't say I like this helper. The semantics are a little confusing, > > not helped by the name. > > > Is it because of the name of the helper ? if so can you please suggest a > name. > Because all it has a same code repeated in the three backends and it really > bothers me to see duplicate code, but that just me :P. Also because it does two rather unrelated things. Or in other words: I don't think the helper helps the readability of the code.