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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: New instances of ENOSYS are errors
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:56:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrXa4qQzQeBj8n0dq8gHwrK5YoZ5_o6=Syc6YSrXH26ZEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428705882.5413.48.camel@perches.com>

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> 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@perches.com> 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

-- 
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-10 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-22 18:05 [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: New instances of ENOSYS are errors Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-22 18:14 ` Joe Perches
2015-04-10 22:30   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-10 22:44     ` Joe Perches
2015-04-10 22:56       ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]

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