[linux-lvm] Re: [PATCH] Re: [bug] infinite loop in generic_make_request()

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea suse de>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:05:53PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> the RAID and LVM make_request functions should be changed to do that
> instead (i.e. 0 on success, -ve on error, and maybe "1" if they do their
> own recursion to break the loop)?

We preferred to let the lowlevel drivers to handle error themselfs to
simplify the interface. The lowlevel driver needs to call buffer_IO_error
before returning in case of error.

Andrea