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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>,
	bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] New Generic HW RNG
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 15:56:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605071556.01936.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060507134527.GA14704@procyon.home>

On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:45, you wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 03:27:33PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:16, you wrote:
> > > On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:03, you wrote:
> > > > This does not handle the case of partial read correctly - the code
> > > > should be
> > > > 
> > > > 			return ret ? : -ERESTARTSYS;
> > 
> > Or, hm. Shouldn't we
> > return ret ? : err;
> > 
> > err is -EINTR
> 
> -ERESTARTSYS is the proper return code for this case - the signal
> handling code will either convert it to EINTR for userspace, or
> restart the system call after handling the signal, depending on the
> state of the SA_RESTART flag set by sigaction().

Ok, I fixed all your stuff. Thanks.
I will run some more tests now and re-submit, if noone else finds a bug. ;)

-- 
Greetings Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-07 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-07 11:35 [patch 0/6] New Generic HW RNG Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 11:35 ` [patch 1/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 11:35 ` [patch 2/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 13:03   ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-07 13:16     ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 13:27       ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 13:45         ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-07 13:56           ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2006-05-10 20:57       ` Greg KH
2006-05-10 21:18         ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 11:35 ` [patch 3/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 13:09   ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-07 14:51     ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 11:35 ` [patch 4/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 11:35 ` [patch 5/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 11:35 ` [patch 6/6] " Michael Buesch

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