Re: how to use errno in kernel loadable modules

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 





On 12/30/05, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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).

is this really the reason why kmalloc returned NULL ? AFAIK 64 bytes is not the limitation for kmalloc

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
--
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx

--
Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel.
Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/
FAQ:           http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/



[Index of Archives]     [Newbies FAQ]     [Linux Kernel Mentors]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [IETF Annouce]     [Git]     [Networking]     [Security]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Linux ACPI]
  Powered by Linux