Returning EPERM gives the impression that "right now" it is not possible, but "later" it could be, while what we want to express is the fact that this is not currently supported at all (might change in the future). So let's return EOPNOTSUPP instead. Fixes: ed3557c947e1 ("ieee802154: Add support for user scanning requests") Suggested-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ieee802154/nl802154.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c index d3b6e9e80941..8ee7d2ef55ee 100644 --- a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c @@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ static int nl802154_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) if (wpan_dev->iftype == NL802154_IFTYPE_MONITOR) { NL_SET_ERR_MSG(info->extack, "Monitors are not allowed to perform scans"); - return -EPERM; + return -EOPNOTSUPP; } if (!nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE])) { -- 2.34.1