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Date:      Fri, 1 Apr 2011 08:51:25 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: looking for error codes
Message-ID:  <F98114A0-0C00-46EF-BD0C-E48F97FFF3E1@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D95E162.40605@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4D95E162.40605@FreeBSD.org>

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On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

>=20
> I am looking for error codes that would unambiguously signal that a =
disk drive has
> readonly or write-protected media and that disk drive has no media at =
the moment.
> I foresee these error codes being used mostly between disk peripheral =
drivers and
> filesystem drivers.
>=20
> I will appreciate your suggestions.
>=20
> P.S.
> I see that Linux uses EROFS and ENOMEDIUM for these purposes.
> I am not sure about EROFS in this role.
> And we don't have ENOMEDIUM (nor EMEDIUMTYPE).

Maybe we could add ENOMEDIA for that (spelled however Linux spells it) =
after EDAVE.

Warner





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