linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: IS_ERR/PTR

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Message-Id: <1260227199.2951.15.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:06:39 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: IS_ERR/PTR_ERR confusion

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 18:04 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: 
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 10:26 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: 
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:34:28PM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:
> > > IS_ERR returns 1 or 0, PTR_ERR returns the error value.
> > 
> > Whoops, thanks, looks like that was my mistake, from
> > 79a3f20b641f9f93787ada49d1d7cfa98ee5a11e "rpc: use count of pipe openers
> > to wait for first open".
> 
> Are you planning on shepherding this fix into mainline, or should I?
> 
> Trond

BTW: It should probably be labelled as 'Cc: stable@...nel.org' since it
appears to be a 2.6.29 bug...

Trond
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