On 1/27/21 11:27 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote: + + bio_set_dev(bio, bdev); + bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = sector; + bio_set_op_attrs(bio, op, op_flags); This function is obsolete. Open code this. And that also mean that you could remove one argument to bio_new(): combine op and op_flags into "unsigned int opf" I did that initially but kept it separate for RFC, that is much easier than having an extra arg, will change it in V1.