From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:52:01 -0700

> What value are the messages providing above and beyond the standard libc
> strerror(errno)? In the case of ENOMEM, there is nothing in the user can
> do to fix that particular command, so why bloat the code with extraneous
> messages? Similarly with other errors like ENODEV -- if there is only 1
> device in question AND the user specified the device then you do not
> need to augment with an additional error message.

Agreed, all of this stuff is bloat and not useful in any way to the user.

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