The patch titled drivers/block/brd.c: make brd_make_request() return error code has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-block-brdc-make-brd_make_request-return-error-code.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/block/brd.c: make brd_make_request() return error code From: Eric Miao <eric.miao@xxxxxxxxxx> brd_make_request() always returns 0, which doesn't make much sense. Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <> --- drivers/block/brd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/block/brd.c~drivers-block-brdc-make-brd_make_request-return-error-code drivers/block/brd.c --- a/drivers/block/brd.c~drivers-block-brdc-make-brd_make_request-return-error-code +++ a/drivers/block/brd.c @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ static int brd_make_request(struct reque out: bio_endio(bio, err); - return 0; + return err; } #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from eric.miao@xxxxxxxxxx are drivers-block-brdc-make-brd_make_request-return-error-code.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html