Re: [PATCH ib-next 2/3] IB/core: IB/core: Allow legacy verbs through extended interfaces

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On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 04:15:42PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> Since the change is to make the kernel do the above fall back
> internally, this specific example doesn't make alot of sense to worry
> about. Ie the extended verb won't fail anymore, and if it does the
> legacy one won't work anyhow.
> 

Makes sense.

> But if there is something out there that does care about ENOSYS we
> should try to keep it, but don't convert ENOSYS to EINVAL.
> 
> Also, when the driver tests the ex flags for support it should be
> returning EOPNOTSUPP or such not EINVAL.. Return codes for the ex
> stuff could stand a good sanity audit.
> 

#define EOPNOTSUPP      95      /* Operation not supported on
transport endpoint */

This does not seem like an ideal choise either. I think ENOSYS in this
case is a better choise.
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