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SubjectRe: [PATCH] register_filesystem() must return -EEXIST if the filesystem with the same name is already registered
Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:42:12AM -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
>> If we have a look at the register_filesystem() function defined in
>> fs/filesystems.c, we see that if a filesystem with a same name has
>> already been registered then the find_filesystem() function will return
>> NON-NULL otherwise it will return NULL.
>>
>> Hence, register_filesystem() should return EEXIST instead of EBUSY.
>> Returning EBUSY is misleading (unless of course I'm missing something
>> obvious) to the caller of register_filesystem().
>
> This `slot' is buy, so EBUSY makes sense. Filesytem is not file, hence
> EEXIST doesn't apply IMHO.

Earlier this week, my calls to register_filesystem(struct
file_system_type * fs) were failing returning an -EBUSY. Now I didn't
know if it was failing because of:
if (fs->next) return -EBUSY;
Or:
p = find_filesystem(fs->name);
if (*p) res = -EBUSY;
...
return res;

It is for this reason I thought it would make sense to differentiate
between the two points of failure.

Hareesh Nagarajan
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