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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2007-08-01 11:23:57 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2007-08-01 11:23:57 +0100
commit440fdb53b4ae58602711b5b8c3a139ace2404dbb (patch)
treec6fb88d6ad537ec53aeecadc75a61ab6147d4c9c /include/linux/notifier.h
parent8b2b403ce0f1a816b7a6a4f47c8798003b26c07a (diff)
parent8d4fbcfbe0a4bfc73e7f0297c59ae514e1f1436f (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/notifier.h')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/notifier.h b/include/linux/notifier.h
index be3f2bb6fcf..fad7ff17e46 100644
--- a/include/linux/notifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/notifier.h
@@ -157,6 +157,19 @@ extern int __srcu_notifier_call_chain(struct srcu_notifier_head *nh,
*/
#define NOTIFY_STOP (NOTIFY_OK|NOTIFY_STOP_MASK)
+/* Encapsulate (negative) errno value (in particular, NOTIFY_BAD <=> EPERM). */
+static inline int notifier_from_errno(int err)
+{
+ return NOTIFY_STOP_MASK | (NOTIFY_OK - err);
+}
+
+/* Restore (negative) errno value from notify return value. */
+static inline int notifier_to_errno(int ret)
+{
+ ret &= ~NOTIFY_STOP_MASK;
+ return ret > NOTIFY_OK ? NOTIFY_OK - ret : 0;
+}
+
/*
* Declared notifiers so far. I can imagine quite a few more chains
* over time (eg laptop power reset chains, reboot chain (to clean