Commit 25c1772a authored by Christian Heusel's avatar Christian Heusel Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: print symbolic error name instead of error code 

Utilize the %pe print specifier to get the symbolic error name as a
string (i.e "-ENOMEM") in the log message instead of the error code to
increase its readablility.

This change was suggested in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/92972476-0b1f-4d0a-9951-af3fc8bc6e65@suswa.mountain/



Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111231521.1596838-1-christian@heusel.eu


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 5266caaf

block/partitions/core.c

+2 −2
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -562,8 +562,8 @@ static bool blk_add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, 
	part = add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags,

			     &state->parts[p].info);

	if (IS_ERR(part) && PTR_ERR(part) != -ENXIO) {

		printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %ld\n",

		       disk->disk_name, p, -PTR_ERR(part));

		printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %pe\n",

		       disk->disk_name, p, part);

		return true;

	}