linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] smb/server: fix return value of smb2

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Message-ID: <103ac0c4-486c-44c0-926c-8cc5b1387efa@web.de>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:30:18 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: chenxiaosong@...inos.cn, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
 Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...ba.org>,
 Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
Cc: chenxiaosong.chenxiaosong@...ux.dev, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] smb/server: fix return value of smb2_notify()

> smb2_notify() should return error code when an error occurs,
> __process_request() will print the error messages.
> 
> I may implement the SMB2 CHANGE_NOTIFY response (see MS-SMB2 2.2.36)
> in the future.

Will another imperative wording approach become more helpful for an improved
change description?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.18-rc1#n94

Regards,
Markus