>> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
