On Thu, Aug 16 2007, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> Hi Jens,
>  I wonder if you would accept these patches the block layer.
>  They are, as far as I can tell, quite uncontroversial and provide
>  good cleanups.
> 
>  The first is a minor bug-fix.
>  The next to replace helper function that take a bio (always the first
>  bio of a request), to instead take a request.
> 
>  The last two combine to replace rq_for_each_bio with
>  rq_for_each_segment which makes blk_recalc_rq_segments a lot
>  cleaner, and improves (to a lesser degree) every other place that
>  used rq_for_each_bio.
> 
>  The net result is a decrease in object code size (for my x86-64 compile)
>  for block/built-in.o of 96 bytes, though there is some growth out in
>  drivers making and over-all decrease of only 48 bytes.

Thanks for seperating these out Neil, will go over them this morning!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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