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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] kvm: Fix error detection for
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> The only thing I'd agree with as a good idea instead of the version I 
> sent is an explicit switch statement with an include of errno.h with 
> __KERNEL__ set.

No way :-)

What's the problem with fixing the kernel to return a proper errno?

We can introduce a CAP if necessary to gracefully detect support for 
proper errno return.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori