On 07/03/2011 04:11 PM, Jim Rees wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > > > Yes, just return UINT_MAX. Fix the other error return too, the one where > > uname fails. And put in a comment if you can briefly summarize Linus's > > argument. > > I thought that a real error like uname failing should still get the > 'wrong' return 0, no? > > No. As I read it, Linus argues that you should only run the backward > compatibility code path when you know you're running an older kernel. If > you don't know, then you should assume you're running a newer kernel. So, if uname fails we treat it as a newer kernel, shouldn't we treat that as an error? So treating it as a special case instead of running backward compatibility or as a newer kernel? Cheers Luk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
