netdev - Re: Use of ENOTSUPP in drivers?

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Date:	Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:47:02 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Use of ENOTSUPP in drivers?

On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 19:57 +0100, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:01:31 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Never return error code ENOTSUPP; it's *not* the same thing as ENOTSUP
> > in userland and is not part of the userland ABI.  I would use EINVAL
> > here.
> 
> 
> I've found a few ethernet drivers that return -ENOTSUPP in various
> functions. In particular, some ethtool functions or ioctl's.
> Ben's message makes me think that the ethtool functions and ioctl's
> should be modified.
> 
> There are other occurences, mostly in functions related to device
> initialization. I didn't manage to track down exactly from where some
> of them are called, and I don't know if ENOTSUPP is okay in these.
> 
> I've included the complete list of occurences (based on net-next) from
> drivers/net/ethernet in patch form at the end, if that's more
> convenient than the file/function list. This is not meant to be
> applied.
> 
> 
> Do these (or part of them) need to be patched? Or is there something
> I'm missing?
[...]

I believe they should all be patched.  According to
include/linux/errno.h, ENOTSUPP is meant for use in the NFSv3 code only.
(But it's apparently erroneously used *all over* the tree, not just in
net drivers!)

Ben.

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