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    [PATCH] NOMMU: Improved handling of get_unmapped_area() errors · d7c43720
    David Howells authored
    The attached patch does two things:
    
     (1) We no longer check the return value of file->f_op->get_unmapped_area()
         unless we actually called it. We know addr is zero otherwise because
         we'd've given an error earlier if it wasn't.
    
     (2) If -ENOSYS was returned by that operation, then we assume we actually
         called a driver (such as the framebuffer driver) that might want to
         invoke the operation in a lower level driver (such as matroxfb) if one
         exists, and that it found that one didn't.
    
         We translate the -ENOSYS error into -ENODEV - the error we would have
         given if the operation was not supplied in the file ops.
    
         Doing this permits us an opportunity for arch_get_unmapped_area() or
         something else to be called if we want that to happen, particularly in
         the MMU case.
    Signed-Off-By: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Signed-Off-By: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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