linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfs: Fix nfs

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Date:	Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:16:13 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs: Fix nfs_readpages() error path

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:10:38 -0500
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com> wrote:

> Instead of the BUG_ON(), why can't we just stick a put_pages_list() into
> __do_page_cache_readahead() and then get rid of all that duplicated
> error handling in mpage_readpages(), nfs_readpages(), fuse_readpages(),
> etc?

I don't recall anything which would prevent that from being done.  iirc it
was one of those things which never happen.  Then things changed and it
happened once and was hence a special case.  Then more things changed and
it happened again, etc.
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