Re: [Pv-drivers] [vmw_vmci 11/11] Apply the header code to make VMCI build

Hi Alan,

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:53:57AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

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+enum {
+	VMCI_SUCCESS_QUEUEPAIR_ATTACH	=  5,
+	VMCI_SUCCESS_QUEUEPAIR_CREATE	=  4,
+	VMCI_SUCCESS_LAST_DETACH	=  3,
+	VMCI_SUCCESS_ACCESS_GRANTED	=  2,
+	VMCI_SUCCESS_ENTRY_DEAD	=  1,

We've got a nice collection of Linux error codes than you, and it would
make the driver enormously more readable on the Linux side if as low
level as possible it started using Linux error codes.

If VMCI was only used on Linux we'd definitely do that; however VMCI
core is shared among several operating systems (much like ACPI is) and
we'd like to limit divergencies between them while conforming to the
kernel coding style as much as possible.

We'll make sure that we will not leak VMCI-specific errors to the
standard kernel APIs.

Thanks,
Dmitry