linux-kernel - Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [git patches] Ocfs2 and Configfs updates for 2.6.27

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:22:14 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@...labs.com>
Cc:	Joel.Becker@...aldomain,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [git patches] Ocfs2 and Configfs updates for
	2.6.27

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:48:03AM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> > Linus,
> > 	Pull this to get the revert and the PTR_ERR() version:
> > 
> > git://oss.oracle.com/git/jlbec/linux-2.6.git configfs-fixup-ptr-error
> > 
> > It's tested with the same testing I did before - ocfs2 and netconsole.
> 
> While this new version looks ok, it seems that it still allows client
> subsystems to return NULL in ->make_group()/->make_item(), in which case
> configfs_mkdir() turns the result into -ENOMEM. Maybe this is intended to
> smoothly update out-of-tree subsystems? I'd suggest to schedule a removal
> of this backward compatibility, and display an error log to encourage
> fixing the subsystems that still return NULL.

	It is precisely to keep out-of-tree modules from crashing.
There's no easy way to make them know it changed otherwise :-)  It could
certainly BUG or WARN before making the fixup.

Joel

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