linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/18] staging: gasket: sysfs mapping creation fixups

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Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:55:48 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...il.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Zhongze Hu <frankhu@...omium.org>,
        John Joseph <jnjoseph@...gle.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Simon Que <sque@...omium.org>,
        Rob Springer <rspringer@...gle.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] staging: gasket: sysfs mapping creation fixups

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 02:14:27PM -0700, Todd Poynor wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:58:03PM -0700, Todd Poynor wrote:
> >> From: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>
> >>
> >> Return EBUSY for attempt to create a mapping already in use.
> >
> > Why?
> 
> The existing code returns EINVAL which often means something bogus was
> requested, whereas EBUSY is sometimes used for requesting something
> already in use.  If that's not an error typically returned in this
> situation I'm happy to drop it.

My "why" was rhetorical, please spell this out in the changelog text :)

thanks,

greg k-h