[dm-devel] small dm mpath cleanups

[hch at lst.de]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 06:41:27PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 09:40 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > this series has some prep patches for my work to have proper, type
> > checked block errors codes.  One fallout of that is that we need to
> > get rid of how dm overloads a few return values with either internal
> > positive error codes or negative errno values.  This patches does
> > that, which happens to clean things up a bit, and also allows us
> > dm to propagate the actual error code in one case where it currently
> > is dropped on the floor.
> 
> Hello Christoph,
> 
> Some patches in this series conflict with patches I would like to end up in
> the stable kernel series. If I would rebase my patch series on top of your
> series then that would make it harder to apply my patches on the stable
> kernel trees. Mike and Christoph, please advise how to proceed.

Bugfixes always go before cleanups.  I'd be happy to delay and/or rebase
any of my patches as needed.