Re: [PATCH] Add support for the S-35390A RTC chip.

[David Brownell <david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > In fact it's common practice to adopt subsystem-specific conventions
> > about what a given errno value indicates.  Otherwise, almost every
> > fault observed would map to a small handful ... making them useless
> > for fault recovery logic, and at best problematic in terms of any
> > diagnostic utility.
> 
> A common practice to use random error codes

Hey, *I* didn't say "random error codes".


> just to make sure they are 
> unique? I don't think so, no. Resource not available is EBUSY, not
> ENOCSI, period. Please fix your driver.

Actually, "address in use" is EADDRINUSE.  I made that change.

(Another reason to use oddball errno values is as a placeholder
until a more appropriate one is found.)

- Dave