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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: sysfs: write returns ENOMEM?
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Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> @@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ ssize_t vfs_write(struct file *file, con
>                  }
>          }
> 
>  +       if (ret == -ENOMEM)
>  +               ret = -ENOBUFS;
>          return ret;
>   }
> 

That's lame.  It'd be better to hunt down all the -ENOMEMs and fix them up.