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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 15/26] block: reexport bio_map_kern
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 08:58:09PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2020-03-20 05:16, Jack Wang wrote:
> > To avoid duplicate code in rnbd-srv, we need to reexport
> > bio_map_kern.

NAK.  If you need this helper you are doing something wrong.  What is
the use case where a simple bio_add_page loop won't work?