UBI: Can we handle -EINTR differently in erase/write path???
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind at infradead.org
Tue Jul 17 06:36:47 EDT 2007
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 11:37 +0530, Vinit Agnihotri wrote:
> Hi heres few code snip from erase_worker(); from wl.c
> if (err != -EIO) {
> /*
> * If this is not %-EIO, we have no idea what to do. Scheduling
> * this physical eraseblock for erasure again would cause
> * errors again and again. Well, lets switch to RO mode.
> */
> ubi_ro_mode(ubi);
> return err;
> }
> Suppose while erasure in progress & someone pressed "Ctrl+C" then UBI
> straight way marks entire device as Read only & its really painful
> because then you cant even delete that volume as UBI is read only.
> Which I guess its not good way. If use cases are considered it is
> highly likely that user can hit "Ctrl+c" , like he want to cancel
> erase at that time or something like that. So we can handle -EINTR
> differently by following way
Please, feel free to ignore my silly question and just send the
patch :-)
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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
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