Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752768AbYFTG50 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:57:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751298AbYFTG5P (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:57:15 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:44970 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192AbYFTG5O (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:57:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:52:53 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Ben Nizette Cc: Johannes Berg , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless , linux kernel , Greg KH , Satyam Sharma , Felix Fietkau , Al Viro , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHES] Re: Is configfs the right solution for configuration based fs? Message-ID: <20080620065253.GA14238@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Nizette , Johannes Berg , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless , linux kernel , Greg KH , Satyam Sharma , Felix Fietkau , Al Viro , "H. Peter Anvin" References: <43e72e890806081425h4e785800nc618fc1985f9809f@mail.gmail.com> <1213002187.698.62.camel@johannes.berg> <1213056772.4089.42.camel@moss.renham> <20080619024804.GA29765@mail.oracle.com> <1213942750.2336.43.camel@moss.renham> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1213942750.2336.43.camel@moss.renham> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1165 Lines: 34 On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:19:10PM +1000, Ben Nizette wrote: > Looks great, thx :-). I'll convert some of my stuff over to this > interface and see how it flies in the real world. Excellent. What is your stuff, btw? Got code? Love to see it. > ISTR when I did this I kept the old semantics and used ERR_PTR and > friends if things went pear-shaped. Given the small number of in-tree > users needing to be moved over, a more intrusive change for the sake of > a cleaner API like you've done is probably a good thing anyway :-) Yeah, I like this better than ERR_PTR. If you like the macros, I'll try to make the next merge window as well. So let me know. joel -- "I almost ran over an angel He had a nice big fat cigar. 'In a sense,' he said, 'You're alone here So if you jump, you'd best jump far.'" Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- 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/