Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:41:21 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: [bug] infinite loop in generic_make_request() |
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:05:53PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > the RAID and LVM make_request functions should be changed to do that > instead (i.e. 0 on success, -ve on error, and maybe "1" if they do their > own recursion to break the loop)?
We preferred to let the lowlevel drivers to handle error themselfs to simplify the interface. The lowlevel driver needs to call buffer_IO_error before returning in case of error.
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