On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 2:53 PM Vishal Verma <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Add a new routine to ndctl_dimm_ops that allows a DSM family to provide
> a translation routine that will translate the status codes of the result
> of a DSM to generic errno style error codes. To use this routine
> effectively, add a new wrapper around ndctl_cmd_submit (called
> ndctl_cmd_submit_xlat) that submits the command, and also runs it
> through the above translator dimm_op (if one is is defined).
>
> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <[email protected]>
[..]
> +NDCTL_EXPORT int ndctl_cmd_submit_xlat(struct ndctl_cmd *cmd)
> +{
> +       int rc;
> +
> +       rc = ndctl_cmd_submit(cmd);
> +       if (rc < 0)
> +               return rc;
> +
> +       /*
> +        * NOTE: This loses a positive rc which happens in the case of a
> +        * buffer underrun. If the caller cares about that (usually not very
> +        * useful), then the xlat function is available separately as well.
> +        */

Hmm, yes not very useful in general but if
ndctl_cmd_xlat_firmware_status() returns 0, why not preserve the
positive value if available? Just to keep the 2 interfaces more
closely aligned.
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