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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ren? Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: fix error reporting in case of invalid mount options
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:35:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030607163521.GG8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030607145532.2bc66f38.l.s.r@web.de>

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Ren? Scharfe wrote:
> there is not much point in trying to print the mount options after
> hugetlbfs_parse_options() went over them.
> Since it employs strsep(), it cuts the option string into pieces by
> replacing all commas with NUL characters. A following printk() will
> always show the first option, only, which could be confusing.
> The patch below changes hugetlbfs to not try to echo the string of
> mount options in case of an error at all. It wouldn't tell us anything
> we didn't know before, anyway.

Let's nuke it entirely. All other fs's barf without printk()'ing at all
and kick -EINVAL back to the caller.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-07 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-07 12:55 [PATCH] hugetlbfs: fix error reporting in case of invalid mount options René Scharfe
2003-06-07 16:35 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-06-07 17:29   ` René Scharfe
2003-06-07 17:16     ` William Lee Irwin III

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