Re: [PATCH] net: bind() fix error return on wrong address family

[David Miller]

From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon,  4 Jul 2011 13:30:29 +0200

> Reinhard Max also pointed out that the error should EAFNOSUPPORT according
> to POSIX.
> 
> The Linux manpages have it as EINVAL, some other OSes (Minix, HPUX, perhaps BSD) use
> EAFNOSUPPORT. Windows uses WSAEFAULT according to MSDN.
> 
> Other protocols error values in their af bind() methods in current mainline git as far
> as a brief look shows:
> 	EAFNOSUPPORT: atm, appletalk, l2tp, llc, phonet, rxrpc
> 	EINVAL: ax25, bluetooth, decnet, econet, ieee802154, iucv, netlink, netrom, packet, rds, rose, unix, x25, 
> 	No check?: can/raw, ipv6/raw, irda, l2tp/l2tp_ip
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Reinhard Max <max@xxxxxxx>

Applied to net-2.6, thanks.
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