On 1/18/21 21:06, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote: > Hi, > > This is a *compile only RFC* which adds a generic helper to initialize > the various fields of the bio that is repeated all the places in > file-systems, block layer, and drivers. > > The new helper allows callers to initialize various members such as > bdev, sector, private, end io callback, io priority, and write hints. > > The objective of this RFC is to only start a discussion, this it not > completely tested at all. > Following diff shows code level benefits of this helper :- > 38 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 236 deletions(-) > > -ck Thanks for replying Mike, Josef and Christoph. I'll move forward with Christoph's suggestion and get rid of optional parameters which is making this API hard to use.
