checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
checkpatch complains about positive return values of poll functions. Example: WARNING: return of an errno should typically be negative (ie: return -EPOLLIN) + return EPOLLIN; Poll functions return positive values. The defines for the return values of poll functions all start with EPOLL, resulting in a number of false positives. An often used workaround is to assign poll function return values to variables and returning that variable, but that is a less than perfect solution. There is no error definition which starts with EPOLL, so it is safe to omit the warning for return values starting with EPOLL. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210622004334.638680-1-linux@roeck-us.net Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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