----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wanlong Gao" <[email protected]>
> To: "Jan Stancek" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], "Jeffrey Burke" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:50:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] readlink03: fix expected errno for kernel >=3.2
> 
> Hi Jan,
> 
> > 
> > This kernel commit restored original behavior:
> > commit 1fa1e7f615f4d3ae436fa319af6e4eebdd4026a8
> > Author: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
> > Date:   Wed Nov 2 09:44:39 2011 +0100
> >     readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for
> > normal lookups
> > 
> > For kernel >= 3.2, ENOENT should be expected errno code.
> 
> 
> I had posted a patch long time ago, you can see here
> http://marc.info/?l=ltp-list&m=132063831228321&w=2
> 
> This is a kernel bug, and already fixed in 3.0 and 3.1
> stable tree, so, just test the kernel version like this
> is not the best method.
> 
> What do you think?

Agreed, version check doesn't make much sense.

I think if this patch was important enough to be backported to stable
trees, we can be sure it's a bug and we can drop that version
check entirely - which is what your patch does.

Regards,
Jan


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