Re: [RFC] PATCH to fix rescan_partitions to return errors properly - take 2

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:32:34 -0700
Suzuki Kp <suzuki@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> Erik,
> 
> 
> Erik Mouw wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:37:49AM -0700, Suzuki Kp wrote:
> > 
> >>Erik Mouw wrote:
> >>
> >>>I disagree. It's perfectly valid for a disk not to have a partition
> >>>table (for example: components of a RAID5 MD device) and we shouldn't
> >>>scare users about that. Also an unrecognised partition table format
> >>>(DEC VMS, Novell Netware, etc.) is not a reason to throw an error, it's
> >>>just unrecognised and as far as the kernel knows it's unpartioned.
> >>
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> Thank you very much for the inputs.
> 
> As per the discussion I have made the changes to the patch.
> 
> This change needs to be implemented in some of the partition checkers 
> which doesn't do that already.
> 
> Btw, do you think it is a good idea to let the other partition checkers 
> run, even if one of them has failed ?
> 
> Right now, the check_partition runs the partition checkers in a 
> sequential manner, until it finds a success or an error.

This is all important information to capture in the patch changelog: it
covers user-visible changes, it covers user-affecting problems with the
present kernel, it describes the implications of making this change to the
kernel, etc.  All important stuff.  So could you please send a complete
changelog for this patch?


>
> * Fix rescan_partition to propagate the low level I/O error.
>

Not enough ;)
 
> 
> 
> Signed Off by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
> 

Please use "Signed-off-by:"

This patch had tabs replaced with spaces, despite the fact that it was an
attachment - that's a new one.  Please get that fixed up for future
patches, thanks.