[PATCH] dm: improve error message consistency
Tidy device-mapper error messages to include context information
automatically.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
index 827b648..75fe949 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
+#define DM_MSG_PREFIX "table"
+
#define MAX_DEPTH 16
#define NODE_SIZE L1_CACHE_BYTES
#define KEYS_PER_NODE (NODE_SIZE / sizeof(sector_t))
@@ -715,15 +717,14 @@
memset(tgt, 0, sizeof(*tgt));
if (!len) {
- tgt->error = "zero-length target";
- DMERR("%s", tgt->error);
+ DMERR("%s: zero-length target", dm_device_name(t->md));
return -EINVAL;
}
tgt->type = dm_get_target_type(type);
if (!tgt->type) {
- tgt->error = "unknown target type";
- DMERR("%s", tgt->error);
+ DMERR("%s: %s: unknown target type", dm_device_name(t->md),
+ type);
return -EINVAL;
}
@@ -760,7 +761,7 @@
return 0;
bad:
- DMERR("%s", tgt->error);
+ DMERR("%s: %s: %s", dm_device_name(t->md), type, tgt->error);
dm_put_target_type(tgt->type);
return r;
}