[uml-devel] Re: [patch 7/7] uml ubd: handle readonly status

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On Monday 25 April 2005 12:16, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24 2005, blaisorblade@yahoo.it wrote:
> > @@ -1099,6 +1104,7 @@ static int prepare_request(struct reques
> >  	if((rq_data_dir(req) == WRITE) && !dev->openflags.w){
> >  		printk("Write attempted on readonly ubd device %s\n",
> >  		       disk->disk_name);
> > +		WARN_ON(1); /* This should be impossible now */
> >  		end_request(req, 0);
> >  		return(1);
> >  	}
>
> I don't think that's a sound change. The WARN_ON() is strictly only
> really useful for when you need the stack trace for something
> interesting. As the io happens async, you will get a boring trace that
> doesn't contain any valuable information.
Ok, removed, and resending the patch, is the rest ok? I.e. is that supposed to 
work? I gave a walk around and it seemed that the code handles 
set_{disk,device}_ro() even during the open, but I'm no block layer expert.

Thanks for the review.
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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