On 02/11/2015 16:05, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > In any case, if we don't start path activation we should return > > ENOTCONN, not ENOTTY. > > Currently, if we don't start path activation we're returning EIO. > ENOTCONN is used for when we do start path activation (and ENOTCONN is > the means for DM core to retry) > > We _could_ change the ENOTCONN to be EAGAIN and EIO to ENOTCONN...
This makes sense... though of course testing the impact of this on userspace is going to be hard. :( Chances are that userspace is not expecting EAGAIN either. Even if they did, how would someone know that they can now retry the ioctl after getting EAGAIN? Should they just do it in a loop? Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
