[dm-devel] dedicated error codes for the block layer

[David Sterba]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 03:17:57PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series introduces a new blk_status_t error code type for the block
> layer so that we can have tigher control and explicit semantics for
> block layer errors.
> 
> All but the last three patches are cleanups that lead to the new type.
> 
> The series it mostly limited to the block layer and drivers, and touching
> file systems a little bit.  The only major exception is btrfs, which
> does funny things with bios and thus sees a larger amount of propagation
> of the new blk_status_t.

JFYI, the patches 13 and 15 are missing, not in linux-btrfs mailbox and
patchwork web. Does not look like a delay, maybe vger refused them
completely.