Re: [PATCH] block: add prio data check for IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE

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On 12/26/18 5:19 PM, Chengguang Xu wrote:
> The idle class does not have class data, so let's
> fall through to case IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE to check
> the specification of data field.

I'm not going to apply this, as it's potentially changing app
behavior. We arguably should have had this check with it was
added originally, we can't add it after the fact as it could
break applications that never cleared the data field for
the idle class.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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