On 1/18/21 10:28 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:03:05AM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote: >> On 1/11/21 23:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> I'm not a huge fan of this helper, especially as it sets an end_io >>> callback only for the allocated case, which is a weird calling >>> convention. >>> >> The patch has a right documentation and that end_io is needed >> for passthru case. To get rid of the weirdness I can remove >> passthru case and make itend_io assign to inline and non-inline bio >> to make it non-weired. >> >> Since this eliminates exactly identical lines of the code in atleast two >> backend which we should try to use the helper in non-wried way. > I really do not like helper that just eliminate "duplicate lines" vs > encapsulating logic that makes sense one its own. > Okay, I'll drop it, next version.