Re: [PATCH 01/33] block: add a lower-level bio_add_page interface

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On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 03:49:53PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Would it make sense to change the bio_add_page() and bio_add_pc_page()
> to use the more common convention instead of continuing the spread of
> this non-standard calling convention?  This is doubly problematic since
> "off" and "len" are both unsigned int values so it is easy to get them
> mixed up, and just reordering the bio_add_page() arguments would not
> generate any errors.

We have more than hundred callers.  I don't think we want to create
so much churn just to clean things up a bit without any meaѕurable
benefit.  And even if you want to clean it up I'd rather keep it
away from my iomap/xfs buffered I/O series :)

> One option would be to rename this function bio_page_add() so there are
> build errors or first add bio_page_add() and mark bio_add_page()
> deprecated and allow some short time for transition?  There are about
> 50 uses under drivers/ and 50 uses under fs/.

If you think the churn is worthwhile send a separate series for that.
My two new functions should have very few callers even by then, so
feel free to just update them as well.




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