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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] updated idetape gcc 4.1 warning fix
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:30:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147379442.26130.85.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147367677.26087.47.camel@c-67-180-134-207.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>

On Iau, 2006-05-11 at 10:14 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> So it should try to write something even on an error ? It looks like it
> would be really difficult to drop the data off the BHs without actually
> doing the write .. The most straight forward way to handle the error
> would be write all the data copied ..

copy_from_user zero fills failure space so that bit is an accounting job
only. 

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-11 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-10 18:10 [PATCH -mm] updated idetape gcc 4.1 warning fix Daniel Walker
2006-05-11 13:11 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-11 17:14   ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-11 20:30     ` Alan Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-16 20:23 Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 17:59 Daniel Walker
2006-05-12 11:48 ` Jesper Juhl

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