Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Oct 2011 23:43:49 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] drivercore: add new error value for deferred probe |
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:33:06AM +0500, G, Manjunath Kondaiah wrote: > > Add new error value so that drivers can request deferred probe > from drivercore. > > Signed-off-by: G, Manjunath Kondaiah <manjugk@ti.com> > Reported-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> > --- > Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> > Cc: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com> > Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> > Cc: Manjunath GKondaiah <manjunath.gkondaiah@linaro.org> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > include/linux/errno.h | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/errno.h b/include/linux/errno.h > index 4668583..83d8fcf 100644 > --- a/include/linux/errno.h > +++ b/include/linux/errno.h > @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ > #define ERESTARTNOHAND 514 /* restart if no handler.. */ > #define ENOIOCTLCMD 515 /* No ioctl command */ > #define ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK 516 /* restart by calling sys_restart_syscall */ > +#define EPROBE_DEFER 517 /* restart probe again after some time */
Can we really do this? Isn't this some user/kernel api here?
What's wrong with just "overloading" on top of an existing error code? Surely one of the other 516 types could be used here, right?
greg k-h
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