Re: [PATCH v2] nvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 03:17:22PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 8/17/26 04:17, Chao Shi wrote:
> > nvme_query_zone_info() returns either a negative errno or a positive
> > NVMe status code, but nvme_update_ns_info_block() only tests for the
> 
> That seems like a bad design of nvme_query_zone_info(). Why not fix it so that
> on error it returns either negative values OR NVMe status code? That would
> avoid the pitfall of the error check that you found.

Because in some case the difference matters, and this thus is a common
pattern in the nvme driver.