Re: [PATCH 06/20] block: Bring back zero_fill_bio_iter
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2023-07-24 17:35:52
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2023-07-24 17:35:52
Also in:
linux-bcachefs, linux-fsdevel, lkml
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 05:11:01PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
From: Kent Overstreet <redacted> 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.