At commit 07d106d0, Linus pointed out that ENOIOCTLCMD should be translated as ENOTTY to user mode. For example: fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR); ioctl(fd, -1, &argp);
then the errno should be ENOTTY but not EINVAL. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanl...@cn.fujitsu.com> --- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index b425c79..720c408f 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -2756,7 +2756,7 @@ long tty_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) if (ld->ops->ioctl) { retval = ld->ops->ioctl(tty, file, cmd, arg); if (retval == -ENOIOCTLCMD) - retval = -EINVAL; + retval = -ENOTTY; } tty_ldisc_deref(ld); return retval; -- 1.7.12 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/