Re: [PATCH net-next 09/12] net: bcmgenet: return EOPNOTSUPP for unknown ioctl commands

[Doug Berger]

On 03/14/2017 04:04 AM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Doug Berger
>> Sent: 14 March 2017 00:42
>> This commit changes the ioctl handling behavior to return the
>> EOPNOTSUPP error code instead of the EINVAL error code when an
>> unknown ioctl command value is detected.
>>
>> It also removes some redundant parsing of the ioctl command value
>> and allows the SIOCSHWTSTAMP value to be handled.
> 
> A better description would seem to be:
> Remove checks on ioctl command and just forward all ioctl requests
> to phy_mii_ioctl().
That is a good description of the code change, but I felt that was
clearly conveyed by the patch content.  I thought it would be a better
use of the comment to describe the more subtle functional change that
might be less clear.

> 
> I also thought the 'generic' response to an unknown ioctl command
> was ENOTTY.
and I think it probably helped solicit this feedback :).  I would have
thought that error makes more sense if there is no ioctl handler, but I
will definitely look into it.

Thanks for the feedback,
    Doug