On 10/20/21 11:30 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:49:07AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
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It's not used for anything, and we're wasting time passing in zeroes
where we could just ignore it instead. Update all ki_complete users in
the kernel to drop that last argument.
The exception is the USB gadget code, which passes in non-zero. But
since nobody every looks at ret2, it's still pointless.
Yes, the USB gadget passes non-zero, and aio passes that on to
userspace. So this is an ABI change. Does it actually matter?
I don't know, but you could CC the relevant maintainers and list
to try to figure that out.
True, guess it does go out to userspace. Greg, is anyone using
it on the userspace side?
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Jens Axboe