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From: Itai Nahshon <nahshon@actcom.co.il>
To: "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <tony@cantech.net.au>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change "return EBLAH" to "return -EBLAH in drivers/*
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:29:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204171529.35613.nahshon@actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204171223370.14274-100000@thor.cantech.net.au>

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 07:42 am, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> --- linux-2.4.19-pre6.clean/drivers/net/plip.c  Mon Oct 22 16:05:31 2001
> +++ linux-2.4.19-pre6/drivers/net/plip.c        Wed Apr 17 11:08:35 2002
...
> -                       return ERROR;
> +                       return -ERROR;

At least the changes to plip.c are wrong.

ERROR is not an errno value:
	#define ERROR     2
and the return from this function is propgated to a test
                if (error != ERROR) { /* Timeout */
Which will go wrong with the suggested patch.

-- Itai


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-17 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-17  4:42 Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
2002-04-17 12:29 ` Itai Nahshon [this message]
2002-04-17 16:12 ` Greg KH

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