Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:11:23 -0600 | From | Grant Grundler <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode II |
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:47:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Personally, I've always thought we were kidding ourselves by not doing > the error checking you describe.
Amen. When I pointed this out a few years back, it was made it clear this was a design choice : not providing a return value was simpler for driver writers. I agree it's simpler and don't pretend to know what's best for other driver writers. Sounds like a topic for 2.7 though.
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