From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:46:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/26] fbdev: Add JZ4740 framebuffer driver Message-Id: <20100708094654.6fbeefe8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> List-Id: References: <1276924111-11158-1-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> <1276924111-11158-17-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> <4C310ACD.6040604@metafoo.de> <20100707164148.d2a1f8c4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4C35D264.7080809@metafoo.de> In-Reply-To: <4C35D264.7080809@metafoo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Lars-Peter Clausen Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:28:04 +0200 Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > > Although I might whine about inappropriate use of > > ENOENT, which means "No such file or directory". > > > > That is due to to many bad examples, I guess. Would using ENXIO instead keep > you from whining? Sounds a bit better. It's hardly a huge issue though. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:47:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49571 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1491797Ab0GHQrH (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:47:07 +0200 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id o68Gku90005691 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:46:57 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with SMTP id o68GksDN014560; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:46:55 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:46:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Lars-Peter Clausen Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/26] fbdev: Add JZ4740 framebuffer driver Message-Id: <20100708094654.6fbeefe8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4C35D264.7080809@metafoo.de> References: <1276924111-11158-1-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> <1276924111-11158-17-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> <4C310ACD.6040604@metafoo.de> <20100707164148.d2a1f8c4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4C35D264.7080809@metafoo.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 27354 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: akpm@linux-foundation.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:28:04 +0200 Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > > Although I might whine about inappropriate use of > > ENOENT, which means "No such file or directory". > > > > That is due to to many bad examples, I guess. Would using ENXIO instead keep > you from whining? Sounds a bit better. It's hardly a huge issue though.