Re: [PATCH v1 2/8] block: make 'struct bvec_iter' not depend on CONFIG_BLOCK

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Mar 30 2016 - 13:19:38 EST


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:17:11AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> We will use bvec iterator to implement iterate_bvec(): lib/iov_iter.c.
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/blk_types.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> index 86a38ea..fd8527b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> @@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ struct bio_vec {
> unsigned int bv_offset;
> };
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
> -
> struct bvec_iter {
> sector_t bi_sector; /* device address in 512 byte
> sectors */
> @@ -39,6 +37,8 @@ struct bvec_iter {
> current bvec */
> };

I didn't catch this earlier, but shouldn't this also move to
bvec_iter.h? Or maybe just create a linux/bvec.h for the bvec, bvec_iter
and bvec iter macros given that those are the types used outside the
block layer as well.