If we have a look at the register_filesystem() function defined in
fs/filesystems.c, we see that if a filesystem with a same name has
already been registered then the find_filesystem() function will return
NON-NULL otherwise it will return NULL.
Hence, register_filesystem() should return EEXIST instead of EBUSY.
Returning EBUSY is misleading (unless of course I'm missing something
obvious) to the caller of register_filesystem().
Thanks,
Hareesh Nagarajan
--- linux-2.6.13.4/fs/filesystems.c 2005-10-10 13:54:29.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.13.4-edit/fs/filesystems.c 2005-11-02 02:33:30.685600000 -0600
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
write_lock(&file_systems_lock);
p = find_filesystem(fs->name);
if (*p)
- res = -EBUSY;
+ res = -EEXIST;
else
*p = fs;
write_unlock(&file_systems_lock);
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