On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 09:16:08AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:59:53PM -0400, koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Reusing bios is something that's been highly frowned upon in the past, > > but driver code keeps doing it anyways. If it's going to happen anyways, > > we should provide a generic method. > > > > This'll help with getting rid of bi_destructor. > > It would be nice to explain a bit why this helps bi_destructor > removal. drivers/block/pktcdvd.c was open coding this - it was doing a bio_init() and then resetting bi_destructor (and other stuff). The generic bio_reset() means it doesn't have to know about bi_destructor anymore. > > > +#define BIO_RESET_OFFSET offsetof(struct bio, bi_max_vecs) > > Maybe better named BIO_RESET_BYTES? As offset tends to indicate the > start of a region. Yeah, that's a better name. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
