linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bitmap: fix bitmap_find_free

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Message-ID: <84144f020812190559y2bf4ac9am695f3d35941fa7ed@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:59:53 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Guennadi Liakhovetski" <lg@...x.de>
Cc:	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitmap: fix bitmap_find_free_region()

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> And return -ENOSPC?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@...x.de> wrote:
> So, you agree that a check should be added to bitmap_find_free_region()?
> As for details - to warn or not to warn and what error code to return,
> that can be discussed, although "No space left on device" doesn't seem to
> fit very well IMHO:-)

Yeah, but ENOMEM, on the other had, is mostly for out-of-memory
conditions so EINVAL might be more appropriate.
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