linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] resources: add interfaces that return conflict information

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Message-ID: <20100319134606.20f5427a@jbarnes-piketon>
Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:46:06 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
Cc:	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@...lera.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, maciej.rutecki@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] resources: add interfaces that return conflict
 information

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:09 -0700
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> wrote:

> 
> request_resource() and insert_resource() only return success or failure,
> which no information about what existing resource conflicted with the
> proposed new reservation.  This patch adds request_resource_conflict()
> and insert_resource_conflict(), which return the conflicting resource.
> 
> Callers may use this for better error messages or to adjust the new
> resource and retry the request.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
> ---
> 

Applied this series to my for-linus branch, thanks.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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