[pnfs] [PATCH 1/1] pnfsd: filelayout_encode_layout should return pos err codes

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:40:51AM -0800, Dean Hildebrand wrote:
> You are looking at the wrong repository.  This builds on 
> filelayout-draft-13.   The code below is totally rewritten.
> 
> My thinking is that since filelayout_encode_layout is now called from 
> the underlying file system, it should return positive error codes.  Once 
> it returns to nfsd, it should negate the error codes from any sub calls. 

Nothing in the kernel should use a positive error code without an
extremely good reason.  The convention of returning -ERRNO is so
pervasive that anything else will just confuse people.

--b.