Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:31:51 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: liqin.chen@sunplusct.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: add EMAXERRNO
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:30:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Some architectures want to flag error returns from a syscall based on
> the return value. The range from zero to -511 is for errors that
> we can return to user space, so add a #define for this to
> include/asm-generic/errno.h.

I thought we could return anything up to -4095.

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
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