Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch.pl: New instances of ENOSYS are errors

[Pavel Machek]

On Fri 2014-08-22 09:26:31, 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.

Is it good idea? I mean, doing EINVAL for subcalls is pretty
unhelpful.
								Pavel

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