Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] dax: change bdev_dax_supported() to support boolean returns

From: Ross Zwisler
Date: Tue May 29 2018 - 18:01:22 EST


On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 02:25:10PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 01:51:01PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The function return values are confusing with the way the function is
> > named. We expect a true or false return value but it actually returns
> > 0/-errno. This makes the code very confusing. Changing the return values
> > to return a bool where if DAX is supported then return true and no DAX
> > support returns false.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks ok, do you want me to pull the first two patches through the xfs
> tree?
>
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the review.

I'm not sure what's best. If you do that then Mike will need to have a DM
branch for the rest of the series based on your stable commits, yea?

Mike what would you prefer?