netdev - Re: [PATCH v9 00/20] simplify crypto wait for async op

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Message-ID: <20171015153831.GA22867@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:38:31 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/20] simplify crypto wait for async op

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:19:45AM +0100, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>
> Changes from v8:
> - Remove the translation of EAGAIN return code to the
>   previous return code of EBUSY for the user space
>   interface of algif as no one seems to rely on it as
>   requested by Herbert Xu.

Sorry, but I forgot to mention that EAGAIN is not a good value
to use because it's used by the network system calls for other
meanings (interrupted by a signal).

So if we stop doing the translation then we also need to pick
a different value, perhaps E2BIG or something similar that have
no current use within the crypto API or network API.

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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