From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932582AbbDJWos (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:44:48 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0197.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.197]:55081 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751575AbbDJWor (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:44:47 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1538:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:1981:2194:2199:2393:2553:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3350:3622:3865:3866:3870:3872:3874:4321:5007:6261:8660:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12043:12517:12519:12740:13069:13148:13230:13311:13357:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: pies94_80b57fea6ef29 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1649 Message-ID: <1428705882.5413.48.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: New instances of ENOSYS are errors From: Joe Perches To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andrew Morton , "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Andy Whitcroft , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:44:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <5eb299021dec23c1a48fa7d9f2c8b794e967766d.1408730669.git.luto@amacapital.net> <1408731270.17241.12.camel@joe-AO725> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.10-0ubuntu1~14.10.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 15:30 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 11:05 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> ENOSYS means that a nonexistent system call was called. We have a > >> bad habit of using it for things like invalid operations on > >> otherwise valid syscalls. We should avoid this in new code. [] > >> I'll submit a separate patch for include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h. Did anything happen with the errno.h patch?