Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] make error codes a formal part of the ABI

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 13.01.15 at 17:57, <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH RFC] make error codes a formal part of the 
> ABI"):
>> On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 16:21 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> > There's on small block commented with TBD left in the public header.
>> > This is the main reason for the submission being RFC. While we don't
>> > currently use these error codes, I'm not sure if we should leave all
>> > or some of them out for the time being.
>> 
>> I say lets omit any we don't use for now.
> 
> Is it possible that anyone is using the existing header file where
> these values were defined ?  If so their code might say
>   case ELOOP:
> which would not compile when they switched to the new header.

The existing header is a hypervisor private one. Any code outside
the hypervisor using it imo deserves to get broken.

Jan


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