linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: New instances of ENOSYS are errors

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Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:56:23 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: New instances of ENOSYS are errors

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 15:30 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 11:05 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> >> ENOSYS means that a nonexistent system call was called.  We have a
>> >> bad habit of using it for things like invalid operations on
>> >> otherwise valid syscalls.  We should avoid this in new code.
> []
>> >> I'll submit a separate patch for include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h.
>
> Did anything happen with the errno.h patch?
>
>

Thanks for the reminder.  I just emailed out v2.

--Andy

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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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