linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: core: Return EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENOSYS

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Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2019 09:59:33 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Alice Ferrazzi <alicef@...cef.me>
Cc:     jeyu@...nel.org, jikos@...nel.org, mbenes@...e.cz,
        pmladek@...e.com, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alice Ferrazzi <alice.ferrazzi@...aclelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: core: Return EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENOSYS

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 03:33:28AM +0900, Alice Ferrazzi wrote:
> From: Alice Ferrazzi <alice.ferrazzi@...aclelinux.com>
> 
> As a result of an unsupported operation is better to use EOPNOTSUPP
> as error code.
> ENOSYS is only used for 'invalid syscall nr' and nothing else.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ferrazzi <alice.ferrazzi@...aclelinux.com>

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>

-- 
Josh