[PATCH v2 7/9] jffs2: init the ret with -EINVAL

[Huang Shijie]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:37:39PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:31:16AM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> > If the media is not SLC nand, dataflash, Sibley flash or a
> > ubi volume, we should return -EINVAL to the caller.
> > The caller should exit in this case.
> > 
> > Current code returns 0 in this case which is not proper.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955 at freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/jffs2/fs.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/jffs2/fs.c b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
> > index fe3c052..0452445 100644
> > --- a/fs/jffs2/fs.c
> > +++ b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
> > @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ void jffs2_gc_release_page(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
> >  }
> >  
> >  static int jffs2_flash_setup(struct jffs2_sb_info *c) {
> > -	int ret = 0;
> > +	int ret = -EINVAL;
> 
> This doesn't look correct to me. This function isn't meant to screen out
> unsupported flash; it's only for doing special things for certain flash.
> In fact, I think this will break many NOR flash which currently pass
> through this function without doing anything.

thanks for pointing this.
This patch was created when i was not familiar with the NOR.


> 
> If you really want to make MLC NAND fail, you should do it with an
> explicit check for MLC, and you probably don't want it in this function.
> Maybe in jffs2_do_fill_super(), near the other 'if (c->mtd->type == ...)'
> checks (but outside of the #ifndef, of course).

I will create a new patch to fix the MLC issue for the jffs2.

Huang Shijie