[Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.

[Louis Rilling]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:19:55PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
> return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
> of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.
> 
> Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
> when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
> ->make_item/group() ops to return an int.
> 
> Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker at oracle.com>

Looks good to me. Happy to see this change coming :)

Louis

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