[dm-devel] [PATCH v6 04/13] pktcdvd: Switch to bio_kmalloc()

Peter Osterlund peterosterlund2 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 04:35:30 UTC 2012


On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
>> (cc'ing Jiri, hi!)
>
> Hi there! :)
>
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:04:01AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>>> This is prep work for killing bi_destructor - previously, pktcdvd had
>>> its own pkt_bio_alloc which was basically duplication bio_kmalloc(),
>>> necessitating its own bi_destructor implementation.
>>>
>>> v5: Un-reorder some functions, to make the patch easier to review
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet at google.com>
>>> CC: Peter Osterlund <petero2 at telia.com>
>>
>> Apart from bio_reset() not resetting bi_end_io and bi_private, this
>> looks fine to me but lack of testing makes me a bit hesitant to ack
>> it.
>>
>> Peter doesn't want to be the maintainer of pktcdvd anymore.  Maybe
>> Jiri can be tricked into taking this one too?  :)
>
> Gah, seems like the floppy saga is going to cause me some more trouble in
> the future ... :)
>
> Well, I definitely have hardware back at home that supports this, so I can
> take it. Doesn't seem to be heavy traffic code either.
>
> Peter, ok with that? Also, how was this usually fed upstream -- through
> Jens' tree?

Yes, I am ok with that.

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