Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

[Jeff Garzik]

Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Roman Zippel wrote:
> > > Yes, it does, but I don't think it's that difficult - basically returning
> > > -EIO, it should be part of the basic error handling. Afterwards you don't
> > > have to waste cpu/memory on unused data anymore.
> > Or you could just not bother, and leave everything as u64.
>
> Why?

To eliminate needless complexity and keep things simple and obvious?

	Jeff



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