On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:05:48PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > I don't think ignoring errors in general is good idea. > If it's desirable that a partial transfer is reported as error then a > particular error value should be defined for this case and drivers > that can continue the transfer in a driver-specific way (such as > spi-nor) can check for this error and handle it appropriately and pass > through any other error. Fundamentally callers just shouldn't be trying to do excessively large transfers in the first place, this is why we want capability reporting. *Any* error code could indicate a truncation, we may have truncated due to some length limitation but it could also be that there was some hardware problem that occurred mid transfer or something similar.
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