netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] checkpatch: warn about uses of ENOTSUPP

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Message-ID: <20200510190432.GB411829@lunn.ch>
Date:   Sun, 10 May 2020 21:04:32 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] checkpatch: warn about uses of ENOTSUPP

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:51:48AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> ENOTSUPP often feels like the right error code to use, but it's
> in fact not a standard Unix error. E.g.:

Hi Jakub

You said ENOTSUPP is for NFS? Would it make sense to special case
fs/nfs* files and not warn there? I assume that would reduce the number
of false positives?

   Andrew