Re: [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode II

[Grant Grundler]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:47:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Personally, I've always thought we were kidding ourselves by not doing
> the error checking you describe. 

Amen. When I pointed this out a few years back, it was made it clear this
was a design choice : not providing a return value was simpler for driver
writers. I agree it's simpler and don't pretend to know what's best
for other driver writers. Sounds like a topic for 2.7 though.

grant