[dm-devel] dedicated error codes for the block layer V2

David Sterba dsterba at suse.cz
Mon May 29 13:16:37 UTC 2017


On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 11:56:07AM +0300, 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.

For btrfs bits in patch 13

Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba at suse.com>




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