Greg,

On 10/30/13 14:08, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
Both POSIX.1-2008 and Linux Programmer's Manual have a dedicated return
error code for a case, when a file doesn't support mmap(), it's ENODEV.

This change replaces overloaded EINVAL with ENODEV in a situation
described above for sysfs binary files.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy<[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman<[email protected]>
---
  fs/sysfs/file.c |    1 -
  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 0d7368d4..382db3c 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -477,7 +477,6 @@ static int sysfs_bin_mmap(struct file *file, struct 
vm_area_struct *vma)
        if (!sysfs_get_active(of->sd))
                goto out_unlock;

-       rc = -EINVAL;
        if (!battr->mmap)
                goto out_put;


as you asked the patch is rebased on top of linux-next, if you encounter any problems related to the change, please let me know.

Thanks,
Vladimir
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