From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Larson, Greg" <GLarson@analogic.com>
Subject: Re: Driver timeout
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:55:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154105732.13509.157.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0607281152030.5161@chaos.analogic.com>
Ar Gwe, 2006-07-28 am 11:54 -0400, ysgrifennodd linux-os (Dick Johnson):
>
> Hello list,
> What is the correct error code for a driver to return if
> the requested operation timed out?
If the operation is blocking then
ETIMEDOUT - if a timeout occurred
possibly also
ETIME - if a timer of some kind expired
If you know why it timed out you may want to return that instead to
provide more information (eg the net code returns things like 'Host
down')
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-28 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-28 15:54 linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-07-28 16:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-28 16:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-07-28 17:06 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
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