Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add an IGNORE_ENOSYS flag and use it
Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Tue, 27 May 2014 11:05:19 +1000
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.trinity |
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| Message-ID | <1401152719.9871.1.camel@concordia> |
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 20:41 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:32:01PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > Some syscalls return ENOSYS depending on their arguments. We don't want > > to stop calling them just because we hit one of those cases. Add a flag > > to specify this behaviour so we don't have to keep special-casing those > > calls in mkcall(). > > I was hopeful this list wouldn't grow, but that doesn't seem to be > the case. Begrudgingly, I applied this. It's going to be a lot > cleaner to maintain if people keep doing this. Yeah it's annoying for sure, maybe perf will be the last one, but at least there's a clean way to handle it if not. cheers