Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10T12:33:48Z

Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>> Roman Zippel wrote:
>>> Yes, it does, but I don't think it's that difficult - basically returning
>>> -EIO, it should be part of the basic error handling. Afterwards you don't
>>> have to waste cpu/memory on unused data anymore.
>> Or you could just not bother, and leave everything as u64.
>
> Why?

To eliminate needless complexity and keep things simple and obvious?

Jeff