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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700
commit1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (patch)
tree0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d /include/linux/err.h
Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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+#ifndef _LINUX_ERR_H
+#define _LINUX_ERR_H
+
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+
+#include <asm/errno.h>
+
+/*
+ * Kernel pointers have redundant information, so we can use a
+ * scheme where we can return either an error code or a dentry
+ * pointer with the same return value.
+ *
+ * This should be a per-architecture thing, to allow different
+ * error and pointer decisions.
+ */
+static inline void *ERR_PTR(long error)
+{
+ return (void *) error;
+}
+
+static inline long PTR_ERR(const void *ptr)
+{
+ return (long) ptr;
+}
+
+static inline long IS_ERR(const void *ptr)
+{
+ return unlikely((unsigned long)ptr > (unsigned long)-1000L);
+}
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_ERR_H */