On Mon, 11 May 2020 10:03:31 -0700 Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 09:53 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > ENOTSUPP often feels like the right error code to use, but it's
> > in fact not a standard Unix error. E.g.:
> []
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > @@ -4199,6 +4199,17 @@ sub process {
> > "ENOSYS means 'invalid syscall nr' and nothing
> > else\n" . $herecurr);
> > }
> >
> > +# ENOTSUPP is not a standard error code and should be avoided in new
> > patches.
> > +# Folks usually mean EOPNOTSUPP (also called ENOTSUP), when they type
> > ENOTSUPP.
> > +# Similarly to ENOSYS warning a small number of false positives is
> > expected.
> > + if (~$file && $line =~ /\bENOTSUPP\b/) {
>
> It's probably my typo or my brain thinking "not" and hitting
> the tilde and not the bang, but this should be
>
> if (!$file & ...)
Ahh! :)
> Otherwise:
>
> Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Thanks!
