linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/sparse: Clean up the obsolete code comment

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Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:19:15 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, richard.weiyang@...il.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/sparse: Clean up the obsolete code comment

On 03/21/19 at 05:19am, William Kucharski wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Mar 21, 2019, at 4:35 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I am sorry to be snarky but hasn't this generated way much more email
> > traffic than it really deserves? A simply and trivial clean up in the
> > beginning that was it, right?

Yeah, I'd like to do like this. Will arrange patch and post a new
version. Sorry about the mail bomb to CCed people.

Yet I also would like to hear any suggestion from people who intend to
improve. Discussions make me know more the status of errno than before.

Thank you all for sharing.

> 
> That's rather the point; that it did generate a fair amount of email
> traffic indicates it's worthy of at least a passing mention in a
> comment somewhere.

We header files to put errno. Only changing in kernel may cause
difference between it and userspace. I will list each returned value in
code comment and tell what they are meaning in this function, that could
be helpful. Thanks.

usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h 
include/uapi/asm-generic/errno-base.h