On Saturday 13 June 2009, liqin.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > EMAXERRNO is mips specific right now. Do you actually need it somewhere? > > > > Yes, I used it in entry.S, maybe I could remove this define latter. > Ok. Note that the maximum error number that is supposed to get sent back to user space is 511. Most architectures check the return value of the system call to be between -4095 and zero upon entering user space. Checking it in the kernel gives you the chance to override the error status from a system call with force_successful_syscall_return(). If that is your intention, you should probably leave the definition in there. Powerpc uses _LAST_ERRNO for the same purpose, which is somewhat inconsistent with mips and also uses a different value to compare against. Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
