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Subject: Re: [PATCH]upi:media: Added rest of the Generic Error Codes to the
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To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>, mchehab@kernel.org,
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From:   Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
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On 07/08/2023 20:12, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Added rest of the Generic Error Codes to the existing list of codes.
>>
>> cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
>> cc: randy.dunlap@oracle.com
>> cc: paulmck@kernel.org
>> cc: corbet@lwn.net
>> cc: markus.heiser@darmarIT.de
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  There is a "moreutils" package across the Linux distribution, if you
>>  installed it and that package has a binary name "errno",if you run it with
>>  "-l" or "--list" option, it will show all the error codes.In my system, while
>>  running it shows me precisely, 134 of such codes.YMMV
>>
>>  .../userspace-api/media/gen-errors.rst        | 479 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 479 insertions(+)
> 
> This document is a list of errors that can be returned by media drivers,
> with a focus on what those errors mean in the media context.  What is
> the point of stuffing it full of error numbers that media drivers will
> never return, along with generic, one-line descriptions?  I'll defer to
> the media folks on this, but I don't think this helps their users.

Indeed, this documents just the media-specific errors, there is no point
in listing all errors here.

Regards,

	Hans