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Message-ID: <20090307163522.1165494b@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:35:22 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gigaset: return -ENOSYS for unimplemented functions
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:22:28 +0100
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> wrote:
> Am 07.03.2009 23:26 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> > On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:10:57 +0100 (CET)
> > Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
> >>
> >> A number of functions in the usb_gigaset module will return
> >> -EINVAL if CONFIG_GIGASET_UNDOCREQ is not set. Make these return
> >> -ENOSYS as it's more specific and it might make it easier to see
> >> (from userspace) why these functions actually fail.
> >>
> >> Impact: some error return codes changed
> >
> > ENODEV is what would be more appropriate.
>
> Not at all. ENODEV means "no such device", which would be quite wrong.
> The device does exist and is in all probability working perfectly
> fine. It just doesn't implement that particular ioctl.
then -ENOTTY is the right answer
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