Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v10 8/8] block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()

[Alasdair G Kergon <agk redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:35:02PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio
> set; as a result various users were open coding it and using
> __bio_clone().

Explain in the header the reasoning behind the change to dm-crypt so that 
it no longer resets bi_idx to 0 too?

> -	clone->bi_idx = 0;

Alasdair