linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: propagate pblk

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Message-ID: <c12bf1b4-3629-7c71-31fd-55468bcee3da@lightnvm.io>
Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 20:11:31 +0200
From:   Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
To:     Javier González <jg@...htnvm.io>,
        Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@...era.com>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: propagate pblk_init return to userspace

On 04/21/2017 05:07 PM, Javier González wrote:
>> On 20 Apr 2017, at 20.23, Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@...era.com> wrote:
>>
>> From userspace calling ioctl(NVM_DEV_CREATE) was returning ENOMEM for
>> invalid arguments even though pblk (pblk_init) was returning correctly
>> -EINVAL to nvm_create_tgt inside core.  This patch propagates the
>> correct return value to userspace.
>>
>> Because pblk was introduced recently this only needs to go in 4.12.
>>
>> Fixes: a4bd217b4326 ("lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target")
>> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@...era.com>
>>
>
> Looks good.
>
> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@...xlabs.com>
>
> Javier
>


Jens, would you pick this up as well? :)