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Christoph Hellwig
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The bio based I/O path complicates null_blk and also make various data structures, including the per-command one way bigger than required for the main request based interface. As the bio-based path is mostly used by stacking drivers and simple memory based drivers, and brd is a good example driver for the latter there is no need to have a bio based path in null_blk. Remove the path to simplify the driver and make future block layer API changes simpler by not having to deal with the complex two API setup in null_blk. Note that the queue_mode field in struct nullb_device is kept as that is simpler than having two different places to check the value and fully open coding the debugfs helpers as the existing ones won't work without a named struct member. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240220093248.3290292-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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