Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:45:53 -0400 | From | Kent Overstreet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/20] block: Bring back zero_fill_bio_iter |
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:35:45AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 05:11:01PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> > > > > This reverts 6f822e1b5d9dda3d20e87365de138046e3baa03a - this helper is > > used by bcachefs. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> > > Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> > > Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org > > --- > > block/bio.c | 6 +++--- > > include/linux/bio.h | 7 ++++++- > > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > I really don't see any point in offering this in the block layer. By > the lack of any other caller it obviously isn't such a generic and > always used helper, but more importantly it literally is three lines > of code to implement it.
And yet, we've had a subtle bug introduced in that code that took quite awhile to be fixed - I'm not pro code duplication in general and I don't think this is a good place to start.
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