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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Attempt to get eject failures back to ioctl(CDROMEJECT)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:39:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114123931.GF5064@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711141739.46960.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

On Wed, Nov 14 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
>     As you asked for some time ago.  Of course, it turns out that the eject
> command ignores the error anyway, but it's nice that it now errors.
> 
>     Not entirely comfortable with this patch: there's a req->errors but
> that seems to have some existing semantics I'm not sure of, so I simply
> added a new way of flagging an error.

It is a bit of a hack, but it's not really your fault. ->errors is
somewhat messy and has different meaning depending on the request type.
I'll add your patch and then do a sanitize on top of it, so that we can
switch things over to a unified ->errno instead.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-14  6:39 [PATCH] Attempt to get eject failures back to ioctl(CDROMEJECT) Rusty Russell
2007-11-14 12:39 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2007-11-15  2:35   ` Rusty Russell
2007-11-15  8:47     ` Jens Axboe
2007-11-15 11:32       ` Rusty Russell
2007-11-15 11:35         ` Jens Axboe

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