[PATCH] drm: Use ENOENT consistently for the error return for an unmatched handle.

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Wed Aug 4 15:46:31 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:19 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> This is consistent with trying to access a filename that not exist
> within a directory which is a good analogy here. The main reason for the
> change is that it is easy to confuse the error code of EBADF as an
> performing an ioctl on an invalid file descriptor (rather than an
> unknown object).

Have you verified no userspace relies on this return value? since this
technically an ABI change.

>From what I can see probably only libdrm tests care.

Dave.



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