From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "hch@lst.de" Subject: Re: small dm mpath cleanups Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 08:33:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20170427063318.GA20345@lst.de> References: <20170426074039.14602-1-hch@lst.de> <1493232084.2632.5.camel@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1493232084.2632.5.camel@sandisk.com> Sender: linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: "hch@lst.de" , "snitzer@redhat.com" , "dm-devel@redhat.com" , "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: dm-devel.ids On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 06:41:27PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 09:40 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > this series has some prep patches for my work to have proper, type > > checked block errors codes. One fallout of that is that we need to > > get rid of how dm overloads a few return values with either internal > > positive error codes or negative errno values. This patches does > > that, which happens to clean things up a bit, and also allows us > > dm to propagate the actual error code in one case where it currently > > is dropped on the floor. > > Hello Christoph, > > Some patches in this series conflict with patches I would like to end up in > the stable kernel series. If I would rebase my patch series on top of your > series then that would make it harder to apply my patches on the stable > kernel trees. Mike and Christoph, please advise how to proceed. Bugfixes always go before cleanups. I'd be happy to delay and/or rebase any of my patches as needed.