>>>>> "Shaohua" == Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> writes: Shaohua, >> What does the extra io_err buy us? Just have this function return an >> error. And then in blkdev_issue_discard if you get -EOPNOTSUPP you >> special case it there. Shaohua> The __blkdev_issue_discard returns -EOPNOTSUPP if disk doesn't Shaohua> support discard. in that case, blkdev_issue_discard doesn't Shaohua> return 0. blkdev_issue_discard only returns 0 if IO error is Shaohua> -EOPNOTSUPP. Oh, I see. The sanity checks are now in __blkdev_issue_discard() so there is no way to distinguish between -EOPNOTSUPP and the other -EOPNOTSUPP. *sigh* I am OK with your patch as a stable fix but this really needs to be fixed up properly. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
