linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [man-pages] adjtimex.2: document clock

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Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:06:37 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc:     Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [man-pages] adjtimex.2: document clock_adjtime

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 4:05 AM, Richard Cochran
<richardcochran@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:53:02PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>  .B EINVAL
>> +The
>> +.I clk_id
>> +specified is not supported on this system.
>
> We return EINVAL when the clockid is not valid.  That can mean two
> things.  Either the SYS-V style hard coded positive clockid is out of
> range, or the dynamic negative clockid does not refer to a valid
> instance of a clock object.
>
> Dynamic clocks might also return ENODEV in case a hot-plugable device
> (like USB) has disappeared after its character device was opened.

I copied that line from clock_gettime() man page. I suppose we want to
fix change this in both pages, right? Any suggestions for a good way to
express your explanation in the man page? I suppose we don't want to
go into details of the implementation there but still capture the possible
corner cases.

       Arnd