Re: [RFC PATCH] bio-integrity: Copy bip_buf and bip_size in bio_integrity_clone()

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Alberto" == Alberto Bertogli <albertito@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Alberto> The case I was thinking about was something like a filesystem
Alberto> calling bio_integrity_get_tag() on a cloned bio, 

Filesystems never see cloned bios.


Alberto>  - What would be a decent name to use in struct blk_integrity
Alberto>    for a module such as mine? Is LINUX-DMCSUM-V0-CCITT
Alberto>    reasonable?

Yeah.  Doesn't matter much, really.  The original intent was simply to
capture the variations in the (hardware) protocols .


Alberto>  - How can I test the tag functions? From a quick grep I found
Alberto>    no in-tree users of bio_integrity_get/set_tag().

There are no users yet.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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