linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] aio: Kill return value of aio

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Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:25:31 -0700
From:	Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com>
To:	Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@...hat.com, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] aio: Kill return value of aio_complete()

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:39:16PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Nothing used the return value, and it probably wasn't possible to use it
> safely for the locked versions (aio_complete(), aio_put_req()). Just
> kill it.

Nice, seems reasonable enough.  (Queue the timer for complaints from out
of tree code?)

Acked-by: Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com>

Though, in the future please cc: aio patches to the maintainers.  I'd
have missed this if I wasn't sifting through lkml:

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f fs/aio.c
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org> (supporter:AIO)
Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> (maintainer:FILESYSTEMS (VFS...)
linux-aio@...ck.org (open list:AIO)
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org (open list:FILESYSTEMS (VFS...)
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)

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