Re: bio_add_folio argument order

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On 4/28/21 10:50 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> bio_add_page() has its arguments in the wrong order:
> 
> extern int bio_add_page(struct bio *, struct page *, unsigned int,unsigned int);
> 
> Oh, right, and the prototype commits the cardinal sin of just giving you
> a pair of unsigned ints and doesn't bother to tell you what they mean.
> I'll send a patch for that ... anyway:
> 
> int bio_add_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
>                  unsigned int len, unsigned int offset)
> 
> This fails to follow #4: https://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html
> 
> Here's what I want to do for the folio equivalent:
> 
> size_t bio_add_folio(struct bio *bio, struct folio *folio, size_t off,
>                 size_t len)
> 
> This will make the transition more painful, but it does remove an irritant
> for the future.  Any objections?

What's the point in shuffling len and offset around?

-- 
Jens Axboe




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