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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty_ldisc: propagate errors from tty_ldisc_release
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:51:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090615165126.1ecdff09@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090615153925.GA27696@damson.getinternet.no>

> Subject: [PATCH] tty_ldisc: propagate errors from tty_ldisc_release
> 
> This is probably better than just ignoring the errors.

tty_ldisc_halt doesn't return an error as such - it just reports whether
the work could be cancelled. Nor can we exit on error paths in those
situations.

Basically one or two cases need to know if we cancelled the work queue or
not (so they can restart it).

So NAK the patch

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-15 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-15 15:39 Vegard Nossum
2009-06-15 15:51 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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