Re: [PATCH] struct super_block cleanup - msdos/vfat

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 08:46:44 EST


OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> writes:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> writes:
>>
>>
>>>diff -urN linux-2.5.7-pre1/fs/msdos/namei.c linux/fs/msdos/namei.c
>>>--- linux-2.5.7-pre1/fs/msdos/namei.c Thu Mar 7 21:18:32 2002
>>>+++ linux/fs/msdos/namei.c Wed Mar 13 08:20:12 2002
>>>@@ -603,17 +603,14 @@
>>>
>>> int msdos_fill_super(struct super_block *sb,void *data, int silent)
>>> {
>>>- struct super_block *res;
>>>+ int res;
>>>
>>>- MSDOS_SB(sb)->options.isvfat = 0;
>>>- res = fat_read_super(sb, data, silent, &msdos_dir_inode_operations);
>>>- if (IS_ERR(res))
>>>- return PTR_ERR(res);
>>>- if (res == NULL) {
>>>+ res = fat_fill_super(sb, data, silent, &msdos_dir_inode_operations, 0);
>>>+ if (res) {
>>> if (!silent)
>>> printk(KERN_INFO "VFS: Can't find a valid"
>>> " MSDOS filesystem on dev %s.\n", sb->s_id);
>>
>>If the error is I/O error, I think we shouldn't output this message.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> If the error is except -EINVAL,
>
> Sorry.
>
>
>>What do you think about this?
>

Why not? The statement is true, and other filesystems do complain when
there is an I/O error.

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Brian Gerst

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