Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: New instances of ENOSYS are errors

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Apr 10 2015 - 18:56:50 EST


On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 15:30 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 11:05 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> >> ENOSYS means that a nonexistent system call was called. We have a
>> >> bad habit of using it for things like invalid operations on
>> >> otherwise valid syscalls. We should avoid this in new code.
> []
>> >> I'll submit a separate patch for include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h.
>
> Did anything happen with the errno.h patch?
>
>

Thanks for the reminder. I just emailed out v2.

--Andy

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Andy Lutomirski
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