From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: standard error codes
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:15:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170314061543.GA336@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170314043338.GA5388@eros>
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 03:33:38PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Driver code in staging/drivers/ks7010 uses the error code -E2BIG as
> the error returned if a string argument is larger than destination
> buffer. Would this not be better suited to the error code -EOVERFLOW?
> Does it matter?
>
> For reference;
>
> #define E2BIG 7 /* Argument list too long */
> #define EOVERFLOW 75 /* Value too large for defined data type */
It all depends on what happens to this error code. Is it sent to
userspace? If so, what type of itnerface is it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2017-03-14 4:33 standard error codes Tobin C. Harding
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