Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5 12/12] block: Only clone bio vecs thatare in use

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:16:33PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi Kent
> 
> When you change the semantics of an exported function, rename that 
> function. There may be external modules that use __bio_clone and this 
> change could silently introduce bugs in them.
> 
> Otherwise, the patchset looks fine.

I don't know.  This doesn't change the main functionality and should
be transparent unless the caller is doing something crazy.  It *might*
be nice to rename but I don't think that's a must here.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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