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From: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] xfs: error sign fixes for 3.15-rc6
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 15:28:07 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53731B07.9040606@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399971373-6242-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

Hi Dave,

On 05/13/2014 04:56 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've been working through the mess that is the
> error sign impedance mismatch between the core XFS code and the rest
> of the kernel. I'm about half way through the codebase, and I've
> found a bunch of incorrect error signs throughout the VFS interface
> layers.
> 
> These were effectively all found by inspection, and is
> further evidence that we need to convert all of XFS to negative
> errors as quickly as possible. 

Would you like to find a volunteer to deal with that? I have a colleague
is trying to study XFS these days, looks this is a good task to him.

BTW, before doing negative errors converting, should we have libxfs infrastructure
support at first?


Cheers,
-Jeff


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-14  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-13  8:56 [PATCH 0/9] xfs: error sign fixes for 3.15-rc6 Dave Chinner
2014-05-13  8:56 ` [PATCH 1/9] xfs: xfs_dir_fsync() returns positive errno Dave Chinner
2014-05-13 12:46   ` Jeff Liu
2014-05-13  8:56 ` [PATCH 2/9] xfs: fix incorrect error sign in xfs_file_aio_read Dave Chinner
2014-05-13 12:46   ` Jeff Liu
2014-05-13  8:56 ` [PATCH 3/9] xfs: xfs_commit_metadata returns wrong errno Dave Chinner
2014-05-13 12:48   ` Jeff Liu
2014-05-13  8:56 ` [PATCH 4/9] xfs: correct error sign on COLLAPSE_RANGE errors Dave Chinner
2014-05-13 12:49   ` Jeff Liu
2014-05-13  8:56 ` [PATCH 5/9] xfs: fix wrong errno from xfs_initxattrs Dave Chinner
2014-05-13 12:51   ` Jeff Liu
2014-05-13  8:56 ` [PATCH 6/9] xfs: fix wrong err sign on xfs_set_acl() Dave Chinner
2014-05-13 12:51   ` Jeff Liu
2014-05-13  8:56 ` [PATCH 7/9] xfs: negate mount workqueue init error value Dave Chinner
2014-05-13 12:56   ` Jeff Liu
2014-05-13  8:56 ` [PATCH 8/9] xfs: negate xfs_icsb_init_counters " Dave Chinner
2014-05-13 12:58   ` Jeff Liu
2014-05-13  8:56 ` [PATCH 9/9] xfs: list_lru_init returns a negative error Dave Chinner
2014-05-13 13:05   ` Jeff Liu
2014-05-14  7:28 ` Jeff Liu [this message]
2014-05-14 21:28   ` [PATCH 0/9] xfs: error sign fixes for 3.15-rc6 Dave Chinner

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