From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add an IGNORE_ENOSYS flag and use it Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:41:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20140527004138.GA7911@redhat.com> References: <1401107522-21239-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1401107522-21239-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> Sender: trinity-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Ellerman Cc: trinity@vger.kernel.org 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. thanks, Dave