Re: how to use errno in kernel loadable modules

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Hi,

kishore wrote:

>     I am using kmalloc in my module. It returned NULL; by that i understood
> there may be some scarcity in allocating the requested amount of memory ( i
> requested for 64 bytes). I returned -ENOMEM, but i thought there may be some
> way to return error number rather than what am using.

-ENOMEM is an error number.

Sincerly,

Thomas
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