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From: "markus@trippelsdorf.de" <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" <elliott@hpe.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Remove leading whitespace and trailing newline in elevator switch error message
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 06:42:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170509044209.GB17152@x4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27B041E0-D0FD-4072-ADAA-B36EDC8D09C0@kernel.dk>

On 2017.05.08 at 20:22 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > On May 8, 2017, at 8:18 PM, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
> > <elliott@hpe.com> wrote:
> >> +        printk(KERN_ERR "elevator: type %s not found\n", name);
> > ...
> >> +    printk(KERN_ERR "elevator: switch to %s failed\n",
> > 
> > That leaves two lines of error prints for a single error, and
> > the second line doesn't convey additional information.
> 
> Yeah good point. Honestly I think we should just kill both lines. None
> of them add value. 

They at least help debugging of udev rules, e.g. on Gentoo they have:

 # set noop on solid state drives
 SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="noop"

And this will of course fail for mq. But how will you notice it without
any dmesg error message?

-- 
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-09  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-06  5:22 [PATCH] block: Remove leading whitespace and trailing newline in elevator switch error message markus
2017-05-08 15:47 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-08 16:48   ` markus
2017-05-08 16:52     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-08 16:53 ` Jens Axboe
2017-05-09  2:18 ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2017-05-09  2:22   ` Jens Axboe
2017-05-09  4:42     ` markus [this message]
2017-05-09 14:57       ` Jens Axboe

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