Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v3] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism | | Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:50:36 +0200 |
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On Monday 26 September 2011, Grant Likely wrote: > Actually, in the next iteration, I'm thinking it would be a good idea > to create a new #define to only be used by probe deferral. I want it > to be easy to find all the drivers that are using this mechanism > without needing to filter all the unrelated hits. However, this is a > kernel-only thing so it is probably not appropriate to add it to > include/asm-generic/errno.h. I could use some guidance/advice as to > the best way to handle this.
include/linux/errno.h already has a bunch of kernel-internal error codes that are never supposed to be seen in user space. Just add one there, the next free one right now is 517, after ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK.
Arnd
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