Re: [PATCH] blkdev: Do not return -EOPNOTSUPP if discard is supported

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On 2011-05-05 09:12, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently we return -EOPNOTSUPP in blkdev_issue_discard() if any of the
> bio fails due to underlying device not supporting discard request.
> However, if the device is for example dm device composed of devices
> which some of them support discard and some of them does not, it is ok
> for some bios to fail with EOPNOTSUPP, but it does not mean that discard
> is not supported at all.
> 
> This commit removes the check for bios failed with EOPNOTSUPP and change
> blkdev_issue_discard() to return operation not supported if and only if
> the device does not actually supports it, not just part of the device as
> some bios might indicate.
> 
> This change also fixes problem with BLKDISCARD ioctl() which now works
> correctly on such dm devices.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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