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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: kill unused ret2 argument from iocb->ki_complete()
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:30:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXBSLweOk1he8DTO@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ce839d66-1d05-dab8-4540-71b8485fdaf3@kernel.dk>

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:49:07AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It's not used for anything, and we're wasting time passing in zeroes
> where we could just ignore it instead. Update all ki_complete users in
> the kernel to drop that last argument.
> 
> The exception is the USB gadget code, which passes in non-zero. But
> since nobody every looks at ret2, it's still pointless.

Yes, the USB gadget passes non-zero, and aio passes that on to
userspace.  So this is an ABI change.  Does it actually matter?
I don't know, but you could CC the relevant maintainers and list
to try to figure that out.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-20 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-20 16:49 [PATCH] fs: kill unused ret2 argument from iocb->ki_complete() Jens Axboe
2021-10-20 17:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-10-20 17:35   ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-20 17:49     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-21 16:40       ` John Keeping
2021-10-21 16:56         ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-22 15:44         ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-23  9:09           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-23 14:01             ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-20 18:16 ` Jeff Moyer
2021-10-20 18:21   ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-20 18:37     ` Jeff Moyer
2021-10-20 18:41       ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-20 18:56         ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-20 19:11           ` Jeff Moyer
2021-10-20 19:12             ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-20 19:47               ` Jeff Moyer
2021-10-20 19:54                 ` Jens Axboe

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