On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 03:09:30PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote: > The block drivers normally return -errno for typical errors. > There is no appropriate error code for "wrong format", so > use a special error code which does not conflict with system > error codes.
ENOTTY is used when something is of the wrong type. Since the name "ENOTTY" is not clear, defining a new error code makes sense though. Stefan
