Paul Jackson wrote:
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> Paul M wrote:
>> I was just trying to get close to the original behaviour.
> 
> An honorable goal.
> 
> Li Zefan - would you be interested in generating a patch
> that fails -EINVAL for inputs outside the range of [-1 ... N]
> for whatever small positive N the kernel recognizes?
> 
> This seems like a minor enough difference that I for one
> don't have any problem with the current code, remapping
> all negative inputs to -1, going in, and then a follow-on
> patch changing that going in afterward.
> 
> Of course, if you or Seto-san prefer the current behaviour,
> it would be easy to persuade me to agree.
> 

I prefer to put a limit on it, but as Andrew just said, we don't
need to rush for this. But sure I'll post a patch if Seto-san
doesn't have an objection on this.
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