netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix ESP SA loading (by default)

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Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:38:47 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	adobriyan@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ESP SA loading (by default)

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 01:31:48AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>
> As we've discussed several times it's not "passing" errors
> that sucks, it's the fact that we use the same traditional
> UNIX error codes for a thousand different errors. :-)

Right.

> I really think we should explore the idea where the current
> process can get tagged with a string when an error is going
> to be returned.  Something like:
> 
> 	const char *error_desc;
> 
> in the task_struct.

Yes this will be heaps better than what we have now.

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