On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 03:33:38PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > Driver code in staging/drivers/ks7010 uses the error code -E2BIG as > the error returned if a string argument is larger than destination > buffer. Would this not be better suited to the error code -EOVERFLOW? > Does it matter? > > For reference; > > #define E2BIG 7 /* Argument list too long */ > #define EOVERFLOW 75 /* Value too large for defined data type */
It all depends on what happens to this error code. Is it sent to userspace? If so, what type of itnerface is it? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
