Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:25:42 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP
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H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:16:39 -0800, a ?crit :
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>Is there any way to fix this?  Glibc people don't seem to want to fix it
> >>on their part, see
> >>http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2363
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Ulrich asked you to go to us once your time travel machine was
> >finished.. is it finished yet ?  ;=)
> >
> >this is part of the ABI, so we can't change this in 2006...
> >
> 
> If ENOTSUP is currently unused and is only there for completeness, then 
> it should be fine to add it.

The functions that should be returning it instead of EOPNOTSUP should be
fixed too.

Samuel
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