Re: [PATCH -mm] updated idetape gcc 4.1 warning fix

[Alan Cox]

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. 
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