[PATCH] PowerPC: kernel: need return the related error code when failure occurs.

Chen Gang gang.chen at asianux.com
Tue May 21 19:03:17 EST 2013


On 05/21/2013 04:10 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:48:58PM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>> > 
>> > When error occurs, need return the related error code to let upper
>> > caller know about it.
>> > 
>> > ppc_md.nvram_size() can return the error code (e.g. core99_nvram_size()
>> > in 'arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.c').
>> > 
>> > And when '*ppos >= size', need return -ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
> Why?  When *ppos >= size, it should return 0 (end of file) in my opinion.
> ESPIPE means that any seek would be ineffective, not that a particular
> seek went out of bounds.

OK, thanks, I will send patch v2.  :-)


Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

Asianux Corporation


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