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From: me@tobin.cc (Tobin C. Harding)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: standard error codes
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:33:38 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170314043338.GA5388@eros> (raw)

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 */

thanks,
Tobin.

             reply	other threads:[~2017-03-14  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-14  4:33 Tobin C. Harding [this message]
2017-03-14  6:15 ` standard error codes Greg KH

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