Re: [PATCH v6 8/8] block: mark BIO_MAX_SIZE as obsolete

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue May 31 2016 - 12:07:59 EST


On 05/30/2016 07:34 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
Some in-tree drivers may use big bio which size is more
than BIO_MAX_SIZE, also the macro is seldom used in tree.

So mark it as obsolete now, and it doesn't make sense
after multipage bvec is introduced.

Is it used in the tree after the patchset? If not, kill it, there's no such thing as a deprecated/obsolete define.

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Jens Axboe