linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Warn when discard request fails other than EOPNOTSUPP

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Message-ID: <20121023131502.GB14662@andromeda.usersys.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:15:02 -0200
From:	Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@...hat.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Warn when discard request fails other than
 EOPNOTSUPP

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 02:12:38PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> We should warn user then the discard request fails. However we need to
> exclude -EOPNOTSUPP case since parts of the device might not support it
> while other parts can. So print the kernel warning when the error !=
> -EOPNOTSUPP is returned from ext4_issue_discard().
> 
> We should also handle error cases in batched discard, again excluding
> EOPNOTSUPP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/mballoc.c |   47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Looks good

Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@...hat.com>
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--Carlos
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