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    SubjectRe: One more bio for for floppy users in 2.5.33..

    On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >
    > With partial results, it would need to do only a slightly different
    > traversal:
    >
    > end = bio->bi_io_vec + bio->bi_vcnt*PAGE_SIZE - bio->bi_size
    >
    > start = end - nr_sectors * 512
    >
    > PAGE_ALIGN(start)
    > PAGE_ALIGN(end)
    >
    > but it's otherwise the exact same code (doing all the edge calculations in
    > bytes, and then only traversing pages that have now been fully done and
    > weren't fully done last time).
    >
    > It _looks_ like it literally needs just a few lines of changes.

    Ok, so we now have two "few lines of code" changes. Who wants to actually
    _do_ these? I'll do it if nobody else wants to, but I'd much rather see
    somebody else _do_ want to do this and test it out and just send me a
    tested patch ;)

    Linus

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