Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755427AbbEUKRX (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2015 06:17:23 -0400 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:65275 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754611AbbEUKRV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2015 06:17:21 -0400 Message-ID: <555DB0AB.2000801@nod.at> Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 12:17:15 +0200 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Norris CC: Wenlin Kang , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , David Woodhouse , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: blktrans: change blktrans_getgeo rerurn value References: <1431498556-21275-1-git-send-email-wenlin.kang@windriver.com> <20150520193325.GK11598@ld-irv-0074> <20150521080511.GF11112@norris-Latitude-E6410> In-Reply-To: <20150521080511.GF11112@norris-Latitude-E6410> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2133 Lines: 53 Am 21.05.2015 um 10:05 schrieb Brian Norris: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:56:21AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Brian Norris >> wrote: >>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:29:16PM +0800, Wenlin Kang wrote: >>>> Modify function blktrans_getgeo()'s return value to -ENXIO when >>>> dev->tr->getgeo == NULL. >>>> >>>> We shouldn't make the return value to 0 when dev->tr->getgeo == NULL, >>>> because the function blktrans_getgeo() has an output value "hd_geometry" >>>> which is usually used by some application, if return 0, it will make some >>>> application get the wrong information. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Wenlin Kang >>>> --- >>>> drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 2 +- >>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c >>>> index 2b0c5287..f8bb16e 100644 >>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c >>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c >>>> @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ static int blktrans_getgeo(struct block_device *bdev, struct hd_geometry *geo) >>>> if (!dev->mtd) >>>> goto unlock; >>>> >>>> - ret = dev->tr->getgeo ? dev->tr->getgeo(dev, geo) : 0; >>>> + ret = dev->tr->getgeo ? dev->tr->getgeo(dev, geo) : -ENXIO; >>> >>> Good catch. I don't think ENXIO is correct in this case, though. Maybe >>> -EOPNOTSUPP or -ENOSYS? The latter might make more sense I guess. >> >> I'd vote for -ENOTTY as this is what HDIO_GETGEIO returns >> if the function is not implemented and blktrans_getgeo() >> is only a wrapper around that. > > I suppose that makes more sense. > >> See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt > > But this only mentions EINVAL... Because ENOTTY is covered by ioctl(). If you request a non-existing function this error code will be returned. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/