linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Remove warning message from ext4_issue

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Message-ID: <20101220130627.GI23626@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:06:27 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	sandeen@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Remove warning message from ext4_issue_discard
 helper

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:42:03PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> ext4_issue_discard is supposed to be helper for calling discard, however
> in case that underlying device does not support discard it prints out
> the warning message and clears the DISCARD t_mount_opt flag. Since it
> can be (and is) used by others, it should not do anything and let the
> caller to handle the error case.
> 
> This commit removes warning message and flag setting from
> ext4_issue_discard and use it just in place where it is really needed
> (release_blocks_on_commit). FITRIM ioctl should not set any flags nor it
> should print out warning messages, so get rid of the warning as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Added to the ext4 patch queue, thanks for the ping.

      	     	  	       	      	      - Ted
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