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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
To: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-media <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: suitable IOCTL error code when device is in state IOCTL cannot performed
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:48:43 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5027EC7B.5010009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5027DC16.8050604@iki.fi>

Em 12-08-2012 13:38, Antti Palosaari escreveu:
> Subject says it all. Which one error value is most suitable / generic ?
> 
> Here are few ones I found which could be possible:
> 
> #define EPERM        1  /* Operation not permitted */
> #define EAGAIN      11  /* Try again */
> #define EACCES      13  /* Permission denied */
> #define EBUSY       16  /* Device or resource busy */
> #define ENODATA     61  /* No data available */
> #define ECANCELED   125 /* Operation Canceled */

IMHO, EAGAIN, EBUSY or ENODATA are the most pertinent ones.

Regards,
Mauro

      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-12 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-12 16:38 suitable IOCTL error code when device is in state IOCTL cannot performed Antti Palosaari
2012-08-12 17:48 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]

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