From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, torvalds@osdl.org,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/32] Add an ERR_CAST() macro to complement ERR_PTR and co. [try #2]
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:46:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071005144605.GA3072@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071004155607.2814.74947.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:56:07PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Add an ERR_CAST() macro to complement ERR_PTR and co. for the purposes of
> casting an error entyped as one pointer type to an error of another pointer
> type whilst making it explicit as to what is going on.
>
> This provides a replacement for the ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) construct.
I don't like this one very much, I'd rather take the variant Linus
outline in his last post on that topic..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-05 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 15:56 [PATCH 00/32] Remove iget() and read_inode() [try #2] David Howells
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 01/32] Add an ERR_CAST() macro to complement ERR_PTR and co. " David Howells
2007-10-05 14:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-10-05 15:47 ` David Howells
2007-10-05 16:07 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-05 16:19 ` David Howells
2007-10-05 16:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 02/32] Convert ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) instances to ERR_CAST(p) " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 03/32] IGET: Introduce a function to register iget failure " David Howells
2007-10-05 14:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 04/32] IGET: Use iget_failed() in AFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 05/32] IGET: Use iget_failed() in GFS2 " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 06/32] IGET: Mark iget() and read_inode() as being obsolete " David Howells
2007-10-05 14:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-05 15:12 ` David Howells
2007-10-05 15:21 ` David Howells
2007-10-05 15:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 07/32] IGET: Stop AFFS from using iget() and read_inode() " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 08/32] IGET: Stop autofs " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 09/32] IGET: Stop BEFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 10/32] IGET: Stop BFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH 11/32] IGET: Stop CIFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 12/32] IGET: Stop EFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 13/32] IGET: Stop EXT2 " David Howells
2007-10-05 12:05 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 14/32] IGET: Stop EXT3 " David Howells
2007-10-09 15:41 ` Jan Kara
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 15/32] IGET: Stop EXT4 " David Howells
2007-10-09 15:45 ` Jan Kara
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 16/32] IGET: Stop FAT " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 17/32] IGET: Stop FreeVXFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 18/32] IGET: Stop FUSE " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 19/32] IGET: Stop HFSPLUS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 20/32] IGET: Stop ISOFS from using " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 21/32] IGET: Stop JFFS2 from using iget() and " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 22/32] IGET: Stop JFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 23/32] IGET: Stop the MINIX filesystem " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 24/32] IGET: Stop PROCFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 25/32] IGET: Stop QNX4 " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 26/32] IGET: Stop ROMFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 27/32] IGET: Stop the SYSV filesystem " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 28/32] IGET: Stop UFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 29/32] IGET: Stop OPENPROMFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 30/32] IGET: Stop HOSTFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 31/32] IGET: Stop HPPFS " David Howells
2007-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 32/32] IGET: Remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete " David Howells
2007-10-05 14:44 ` [PATCH 00/32] Remove iget() and read_inode() " David Howells
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