linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 8/8] block: mark BIO_MAX

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Date:	Tue, 31 May 2016 10:07:50 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 8/8] block: mark BIO_MAX_SIZE as obsolete

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.

-- 
Jens Axboe