On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> >> Reported-by: Grant Likely <[email protected]> >> --- >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: Grant Likely <[email protected]> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> >> Cc: Dilan Lee <[email protected]> >> Cc: Mark Brown <[email protected]> >> Cc: Manjunath GKondaiah <[email protected]> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> >> >> 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?
According to Arnd, yes this is okay. > 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? overloading makes it really hard to find the users at a later date. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
