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SubjectRe: unregister_ioctl32_conversion and modules. ioctl32 revisited.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:06:08AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > But what if you really wanted to return -ENOIOCTLCMD?
>
> It's an internal error code as Arnd pointed out.

can we be sure this will never escape to userspace? i can think of
somewhere else we already do this (EFSCORRUPTED) and it does (somewhat
deliberately escape to userspace) and this causes confusion from time
to time when applications see 'errno == 990'

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