On Wed 04-05-16 17:41:26, Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 09:18 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 12:42:58PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > >
> :
> > Please write a helper along the lines of:
> >
> > error = blkdev_supports_dax(sb->s_bdev, sb->s_blocksize);
> >
> > and encapsulate all this, including the specific error messages in the
> > helper (i.e. "Block device %s does not support DAX."). Then the rest
> > of the filesystem code looks something like this:
> >
> > if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_DAX) {
> > error = blkdev_supports_dax(sb->s_bdev, sb->s_blocksize);
> > if (error) {
> > xfs_alert(mp,
> > "DAX unsupported by block device. Turning off DAX.");
> > mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_DAX;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > And each filesystem can choose to do what it wants with the error
> > without having to care exactly why DAX is not supported.
>
> Yes, I had this change in mind and was wondering if you are OK with it
> since I am incline to keep the ext2/4 message style as majority rule. :)
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/3/543
>
> Assuming that's OK, I will make this change.
Yeah, just send me ext2 changes on top of your v2 and I can pull it to my
tree.
Honza
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