Re: [PATCH 3/6] bitops: bitmap helper to set variable length values

From: Yury Norov
Date: Wed Jul 13 2022 - 15:44:46 EST


On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 09:10:33PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 8:56 PM Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 06:31:59PM +0200, Sebastian Fricke wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > I'd suggest you to try implementing
> > bitmap_copy_from(dst, src, dst_off, len)
> > or even
> > bitmap_copy_from(dst, dst_off, src, src_off, len)
> > if you expect that you'll need more flexibility in the future.
>
> Do you think it would be useful?
>
> We have bitmap_replace() & bitmap_remap(). Wouldn't that be enough?

bitmap_replace and bitmap_remap have no an 'offset' parameter.