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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: vme: fix error return code in vme_user_probe()
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 02:56:17PM +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
> On 13/05/13 09:51, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
> >> On 13/05/13 07:05, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> >>> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
> >>>
> >>> Fix to return -ENOMEM in the resource alloc error handling
> >>> case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Wei,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your patch. As this is resource allocation rather than memory
> >> allocation that is failing, would -EAGAIN not make more sense than -ENOMEM?
> >>
> >
> > ENOMEM is better. EAGAIN is for when trylock() fails etc. In other
> > words we are not allowed to block and someone is using the lock we
> > need.
> >
>
> ENOMEM just doesn't seem to describe the error very well. This error will be
> triggered if no free VME windows are available for the driver to use - there
> are typically 8 master and 8 slave windows provided in hardware.
>
> How about EBUSY (Device or resource busy)?

EBUSY would work.

regards,
dan carpenter



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