Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161207AbWHJMZq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:25:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161211AbWHJMZq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:25:46 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:14046 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161207AbWHJMZp (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:25:45 -0400 Message-ID: <44DB25C1.1020807@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:25:37 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Zippel CC: Andrew Morton , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string References: <1155172843.3161.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809234019.c8a730e3.akpm@osdl.org> <44DB203A.6050901@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 538 Lines: 15 Roman Zippel wrote: > Yes, it does, but I don't think it's that difficult - basically returning > -EIO, it should be part of the basic error handling. Afterwards you don't > have to waste cpu/memory on unused data anymore. Or you could just not bother, and leave everything as u64. Jeff - 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/