[PATCH] UBI: block: Use ENOSYS as return value when CONFIG_UBIBLOCK=n

[Ezequiel Garcia]

On Mar 04, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 09:14 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:49:51PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 07:57 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > > In order to have a way of distinguishing an invalid ioctl from a
> > > > not supported (but otherwise valid) ioctl, this commit changes the
> > > > return value of the ioctl stubs from ENOTTY to ENOSYS.
> > > 
> > > Sounds logical, no objections, except it is curious if this is something
> > > you invented or this is a general rule in the Linux kernel? If it is,
> > > may be you can point to some discussions, or give some example or other
> > > source of this knowledge? I just want to be educated a bit. Thanks!
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, I think it's a pretty extended kernel practice to return -ENOSYS when
> > a function is not built or either not implemented.
> 
> Pushed this one and the previous 3 ones. I think what is left is ioctl
> names and the user-space tool.
> 

I'm seeing all the other patches pushed, but not this one. Do you want me to
send a rebased patch?
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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
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