linux-kernel - Re: [mm patch] drm, minor fixes

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Date:	Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:13:39 +0000
From:	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>
To:	airlied@...ux.ie
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [mm patch] drm, minor fixes

(Sorry, I forgot to CCs.)
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:22:42PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>
> >>are you sure the callers of these don't wrap it inside a DRM_ERR()
> >>macro ?
> >I changed the values when:
> >- I've checked what seemed right, getting back to the system call.
> > drm_ioctl(), through a call to func().
> > That's the case for:
> > - the EFAULT value in i915_emit_box
> > - two EINVAL values in drm_setversion
> >- the return value wasn't used. That was the case for
> > drm_set_busid return values, I felt having returned values negative
> > from the start was more consistent.
> >
> >Is there a particular change that looked suspicious to you?
> 
> [...], however I doubt any of the codepaths are causing a major problem [...]
I agree, I just corrected those because I happen to stumble upon them.
I've tried a kernel with those corrections alone, and it didn't changed
anything on the oopses.

Regards,
Frederik

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