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Message-ID: <20110524160847.48ba7d34@absol.kitzblitz>
Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 16:08:47 +0200
From:	Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@...ai.net>
To:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] posix clocks: correct error value in posix_clock_poll()

* Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:51:47PM +0200, Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
> > It looks to me like -ENODEV might not be a good return value
> > in poll(). Would POLLERR be the correct one in this case?

> The condition (!clk) is only satisfied when 'zombie' is set,
> indicating that the dynamic clock has disappeared. That is why the
> file operations uniformly return ENODEV. So, I think it makes sense
> the way that it is.
> 
> In addition, man 2 poll says,
> 
>    POLLERR
>           Error condition (output only).
> 
> so using that error code would be misleading, IMHO.

I see. Sorry for the noise.

Best regards,
Nicolas Kaiser
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