On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:06:21PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Bjorn. > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:01:38AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > Sorry, I haven't jumped in here yet because I saw your discussion and > > was hoping you guys would figure something out without my help. It > > will take me a few hours to look into this and come up with anything > > constructive to say. > > > > I do remember disliking the complicated interface of > > pci_enable_msi_block() (return negative errno, return positive "we > > might be able to do this" values, or zero), but I'll have to do some > > more research before I can say much more than that. > > According to Alexander, it doesn't even seem like we have any actual > use case for the positive return numbers. I say just rip it out and > do the regular 0/-errno all the way through. I agree, that would be much simpler. I propose that you rework it that way, and at least find out what (if anything) would break if we do that. Or maybe we just give up some optimization; it would be nice to quantify that, too. Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
