[syslinux] [PATCH][git-pull] Update strerror() to give english messages

[Gene Cumm]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 14:06 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
>> On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 11:32 -0400, Gene Cumm wrote:
>> > Reminder.
>>
>> Thanks Gene.
>>
>> I'm not planning on applying this for 4.06 as it changes the way errno.h
>> works/is generated, so it seems unsuitable for 4.06. It does look like a
>> good clean up in general though and I've queued it up on my "merge into
>> whatever release is the development release once 4.06 is out" branch.
>
> Gene, what's the purpose of the following commit?
>
> commit a4ee94b46035c81bed8d72a5a0f6dd14f065f434
> Author: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
> Date:   Sat Jun 16 13:11:43 2012 -0400
>
>     errno.h: Strip it of unused macros
>
>     In preparation of klibc's strerror()
>
>     Signed-off-by: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
>
>
> I'm concerned that if people don't have access to a full range of errno
> values they're going to pick a value that they think is "close enough",
> but which doesn't accurately reflect the error condition.
>
> Is there a reason that the errno list needs to be stripped?
>
> --
> Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

This was only to trim the size of the resultant COM32 modules in 4.xx
and would be negligible for 5.xx.

-- 
-Gene