| Date | Sat, 6 Jan 2018 09:19:11 -0700 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V4 15/45] block: rename bio_for_each_segment* with bio_for_each_page* |
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On Mon, Dec 18 2017, Ming Lei wrote: > It is a tree-wide mechanical replacement since both bio_for_each_segment() > and bio_for_each_segment_all() never returns real segment at all, and > both just return one page per bvec and deceive us for long time, so fix > their names. > > This is a pre-patch for supporting multipage bvec. Once multipage bvec > is in, each bvec will store a real multipage segment, so people won't be > confused with these wrong names.
No, we're not doing this, it's a pretty pointless tree wide replacement with a fairly weak justification.
-- Jens Axboe
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