Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:34:56 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/16] iommu/amd: Add IOAPIC remapping routines | From | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <> |
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>> I was thinking the other way around. You recover the old affinity. Should >> you print out a warning mentioning to the system admin that you could not >> set the new affinity but reverted to the old one? Or will that not serve >> anything except spam the kernel logs? > > Well, I don't think it makes sense to print an additional error at this > point. The error will be propagated upwards in the call-chain and in the > end it is up to the initiator how to handle this situation (for example > just return a failure to user-space).
OK. Thx for the explanation. I was not sure whether the error would propagate properly up the chain.
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