Re: [PATCH 09/16] iommu/amd: Add IOAPIC remapping routines

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

>> I was thinking the other way around. You recover the old affinity. Should
>> you print out a warning mentioning to the system admin that you could not
>> set the new affinity but reverted to the old one? Or will that not serve
>> anything except spam the kernel logs?
>
> Well, I don't think it makes sense to print an additional error at this
> point. The error will be propagated upwards in the call-chain and in the
> end it is up to the initiator how to handle this situation (for example
> just return a failure to user-space).

OK. Thx for the explanation. I was not sure whether the error would
propagate properly up the chain.
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