From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: trinity@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add an IGNORE_ENOSYS flag and use it
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:05:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1401152719.9871.1.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140527004138.GA7911@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 20:41 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:32:01PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Some syscalls return ENOSYS depending on their arguments. We don't want
> > to stop calling them just because we hit one of those cases. Add a flag
> > to specify this behaviour so we don't have to keep special-casing those
> > calls in mkcall().
>
> I was hopeful this list wouldn't grow, but that doesn't seem to be
> the case. Begrudgingly, I applied this. It's going to be a lot
> cleaner to maintain if people keep doing this.
Yeah it's annoying for sure, maybe perf will be the last one, but at least
there's a clean way to handle it if not.
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-27 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-26 12:32 [PATCH 1/2] Add an IGNORE_ENOSYS flag and use it Michael Ellerman
2014-05-26 12:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] Mark perf_event_open() with IGNORE_ENOSYS Michael Ellerman
2014-05-27 0:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add an IGNORE_ENOSYS flag and use it Dave Jones
2014-05-27 1:05 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2014-05-27 5:02 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-28 3:27 ` Michael Ellerman
2014-05-28 15:38 ` Vince Weaver
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