netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] rocker: fix non-portable err return codes

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 06:04:51 -0800
From:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"jiri@...nulli.us" <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] rocker: fix non-portable err return codes

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:17 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> From: sfeldma@...il.com
>> The rocker device returns error codes if something goes wrong with descriptor
>> processing.  Originally the device used standard errno codes for different
>> errors, but since those errno codes aren't portable across ARCHs, the device
>> now returns hard-coded error codes that stay constant across diff ARCHs.  Fix
>> driver to use those same hard-coded values.
>
> You might as well use dense error numbers and then an array for the conversion.
> If you want to avoid confusion, then offset the error numbers from zero.

Agreed, but I was stuck by the legacy of older devices which used the
original errno values.  My bad not thinking about errno's being
non-portable.

-scott
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