From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu fs/quota_v2.c can, under some conditions, issue a kernel message that says, in totality, 'failed read'. This patch does the following: 1) Gives a hint who issued the error message, so people reading the logs don't have to go grepping the entire kernel tree (with 11 false positives). 2) Say what amount of data we expected, and actually got. Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/quota_v2.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/quota_v2.c~quota-make-useless-quota-error-message-informative fs/quota_v2.c --- 25/fs/quota_v2.c~quota-make-useless-quota-error-message-informative Thu Jan 12 17:19:15 2006 +++ 25-akpm/fs/quota_v2.c Thu Jan 12 17:19:15 2006 @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ static int v2_check_quota_file(struct su size = sb->s_op->quota_read(sb, type, (char *)&dqhead, sizeof(struct v2_disk_dqheader), 0); if (size != sizeof(struct v2_disk_dqheader)) { - printk("failed read\n"); + printk("quota_v2: failed read expected=%d got=%d\n", + sizeof(struct v2_disk_dqheader), size); return 0; } if (le32_to_cpu(dqhead.dqh_magic) != quota_magics[type] || _