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From: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: Use ENOENT consistently for the error return for
	an unmatched handle.
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:46:31 +1000
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On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:19 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> This is consistent with trying to access a filename that not exist
> within a directory which is a good analogy here. The main reason for the
> change is that it is easy to confuse the error code of EBADF as an
> performing an ioctl on an invalid file descriptor (rather than an
> unknown object).

Have you verified no userspace relies on this return value? since this
technically an ABI change.

>>From what I can see probably only libdrm tests care.

Dave.