Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:25:12 +0200 | From | David Sterba <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] scripts: kerrno.sh - errno translator |
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 01:29:41PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > 2015-04-30 13:04 GMT+02:00 Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski > > <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> wrote: > >> Shell script allowing to find errno definitions and descriptions in the > >> kernel source. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> > >> --- > >> This is a simple script I use when seeing messages like: > >> > >> some_func() failed: -123 > > > > What is wrong with a one-liner like: > > gcc -E -dD - < include/uapi/linux/errno.h |grep -E "^#define E.* 123$" > > Nothing really - the output is less nice, that's all.
I'd find a helper script useful in situations where I don't know the error code immediatelly and have to convert it from a hexa value first. Eg. when RAX contains an error code after a BUG_ON:
RAX: 00000000ffffffe4
this translates to -28 == -ENOSPC.
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