On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Daniel Dadap <[email protected]> wrote: > insmod and modprobe return STATUS_FAILURE when module insertion fails, > regardless of the reason. Since distinguishing between specific failure > cases might be useful for callers of these utilities, it makes sense to > propagate the error code from insertion to the exit status.
relying on the return code of a binary is one thing that can break very easily. Could you share why you need to distinguish between the causes of failures. This might as well break current code which relies on the current return code. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Dadap <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Andy Ritger <[email protected]> btw we don't use s-o-b in kmod. Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
