Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:47:51 -0800
From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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       linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:55:04PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> wrote:
> >
> > +			return -EREMOTEIO;
> 
> That's the first time I've seen anyone use EREMOTEIO ;) Any idea what it
> was added to Unix for?
> 
> hm, DVB seems to like it.

DVB's usage of EREMOTEIO actually comes from drivers/i2c/.
I suppose it means that the error didn't happen at the
bus driver but was caused the device behind the bus,
although I'm not sure if one can really tell those cases
from one another.

Johannes
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