On 7/3/22 22:49, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 08:17:38PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
For allocating IDs the ID allocator (IDA) provides the following
functions: ida_alloc(), ida_alloc_range(), ida_alloc_min() and
ida_alloc_max() whereas for IDRs only idr_alloc() is available.
In contrast to ida_alloc(), idr_alloc() behaves like ida_alloc_range(),
which takes MIN and MAX arguments to define the bounds within an ID
should be allocated - ida_alloc() instead implicitly uses the maximal
bounds possible for MIN and MAX without taking those arguments.
In order to align the IDR and IDA APIs this patch provides
implementations for idr_alloc(), idr_alloc_range(), idr_alloc_min() and
idr_alloc_max(), which are analogue to the IDA API.
I don't really want to make any changes to the IDR API. I want to get
rid of the IDR API. I'm sorry you did all this work, but you should
probaby talk to the maintainer before embarking on such a big project.
No problem at all - didn't really took long.
If you're interested, converting IDR users to the XArray API is an
outstanding project that I'd be interested in encouraging.
Yes, I might have a look!
- Danilo
