Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:26:19 -0800 From: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> To: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Cc: gentoo-bsd@lists.gentoo.org, Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, x11@freebsd.org, David Shao <davshao@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] intel: Fix missing ETIME on BSD operating systems Message-ID: <20121111092619.00004321@unknown> In-Reply-To: <509EC8DA.4050205@gentoo.org> References: <1352525096-10345-1-git-send-email-ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> <87ip9d1al2.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net> <509EC8DA.4050205@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:36:26 -0500 Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 11/10/2012 03:12 PM, Eric Anholt wrote: > > Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> writes: > > > >> From: David Shao <davshao@gmail.com> > >> > >> Originally posted to Free Desktop bug #52549 by David Shao. > >> Resolves Gentoo Bug #433403. > >> Commit message by Richard Yao. > > > > Are you really unable to get the same errnos in your port of the > > kernel modules? Having mismatched errno returns from upstream is a > > great way to have obscure bugs on your port, given that our kernel > > guys like to look for alternative errnos to be able to distinguish > > failure modes from userland. > > > > I don't like the idea of this patch landing. > > I have added the FreeBSD x11 team alias to CC, which I probably should > have done in my original email. They are in a better position to > answer this than I am. > > At present, MySQL also does this. Changing that would require changes > to the userland of FreeBSD (and other BSDs). The FreeBSD x11 team is > in a position to do that. I am in the process of getting Gentoo's X11 > stack working on Gentoo FreeBSD, so I am interested in their answer > to your question as well. > > Before pushing the patch, I did a bit of googling and I too found that MySQL and LibreOffice does this, so it seemed okay to me. It's not terribly prolific because I think many cross-platform products do not use interfaces which return ETIME. It sounds like BSD though is the only remaining holdout, as Windows and OSX both seem to support ETIME.home | help
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