Patch for linux xfs driver

[Magnus Ahltorp]

>   I've been having trouble with the odd spurious Oops when running
> ARLA 0.13 on a linux 2.1.125 kernel. I think I've tracked it down to
> various 'IS_ERR' macros 'Oops'ing due to positive error-values being
> returned by ARLA routines.
> 
>   Would somebody knowledgeable of ARLA internals please check the
> following patch to 'xfs/linux' for correctness?

FYI, this was fixed a week ago. We are making a new release soon.
I have fixed it in another way:

Index: xfs_dev.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/arla/xfs/linux/xfs_dev.c,v
retrieving revision 1.25
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.25 -r1.26
--- xfs_dev.c   1998/10/02 04:40:30     1.25
+++ xfs_dev.c   1998/10/09 04:27:50     1.26
@@ -537,7 +537,10 @@
          }
        else {
          memmove(t->message, message, size);
-         t->error_or_size = -message->error;
+         if (message->error < 0)
+             t->error_or_size = -EPROTO;
+         else
+             t->error_or_size = -message->error;
        }
        if (t->wait_queue)
          wake_up(&t->wait_queue);
@@ -565,7 +568,10 @@
            }
            else {
                memmove(t->message, message, size);
-               t->error_or_size = -message->error;
+               if (message->error < 0)
+                   t->error_or_size = -EPROTO;
+               else
+                   t->error_or_size = -message->error;
            }
            if (t->wait_queue)
                wake_up(&t->wait_queue);