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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: remove xfs_release
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:49:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190918164938.GA19316@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190916125311.GB41978@bfoster>

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 08:53:11AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> The caller might not care if this call generates errors, but shouldn't
> we care if something fails? IOW, perhaps we should have an exit path
> with a WARN_ON_ONCE() or some such to indicate that an unhandled error
> has occurred..?

Not sure there is much of a point.  Basically all errors are either
due to a forced shutdown or cause a forced shutdown anyway, so we'll
already get warnings.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-18 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-16 12:20 minor ->release fixups and cleanups Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-16 12:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: remove xfs_release Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-16 12:53   ` Brian Foster
2019-09-18 16:49     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-09-18 18:12       ` Brian Foster
2019-09-18 18:21         ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-09-18 22:25           ` Dave Chinner
2019-09-16 12:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: shortcut xfs_file_release for read-only file descriptors Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-16 12:53   ` Brian Foster
2019-09-18 16:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-18 17:06       ` Darrick J. Wong

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