linux-kernel - Re: [take21 2/4] kevent: poll/select() notifications.

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Message-id: <45432B1A.8020503@cosmosbay.com>
Date:	Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:04:10 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Johann Borck <johann.borck@...sedata.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [take21 2/4] kevent: poll/select() notifications.

Evgeniy Polyakov a écrit :

> +	file = fget(k->event.id.raw[0]);
> +	if (!file)
> +		return -ENODEV;

Please, do us a favor, and use EBADF instead of ENODEV.

EBADF : /* Bad file number */

ENODEV : /* No such device */

You have many ENODEV uses in your patches and that really hurts.

Eric

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