[Devel] Re: [PATCH][SHMEM] Factor out sbi->free_inodes manipulations

[Hugh Dickins]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> It is peculair to (wrongly) return -ENOMEM
> 
> > +	if (shmem_reserve_inode(inode->i_sb))
> > +		return -ENOSPC;
> 
> and to then correct it in the caller..

Oops, I missed that completely.

> Something boringly conventional such as the below, perhaps?

Much better, thanks.

Hugh