From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 16:00:24 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jens Axboe , Josef Bacik , James Smart , Roger Pau =?iso-8859-1?Q?Monn=E9?= , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: kill req->errors Message-ID: <20170406200024.GC6140@localhost.localdomain> References: <20170406153944.10058-1-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20170406153944.10058-1-hch@lst.de> List-ID: On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 05:39:19PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Currently the request structure has an errors field that is used in > various different ways. The oldest drivers use it as an error count, > blk-mq and the generic timeout code assume that it holds a Linux > errno for block completions, and various drivers use it for internal > status values, often overwriting them with Linux errnos later, > that is unless they are processing passthrough requests in which > case they'll leave their errors in it. > > This series kills the ->errors field and replaced it with new fields > in the drivers (or an odd hack in a union in struct request for > two bitrotting old drivers). > > Note that this series expects that the patch to remove the mg_disk > driver has been applied already on top of the block for-next tree. You wouldn't have a git tree to easily test it? Thanks.