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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Adam Goode <agoode@google.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH - alsa-lib 1/1] Introduce	snd_seq_client_info_get_card_number, for getting the card number of a seq client on recent kernels
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 08:50:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <557146C5.90209@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433466312-31444-1-git-send-email-agoode@google.com>

Adam Goode wrote:
>  /**
> + * \brief Get the card number of a client_info container
> + * \param info client_info container
> + * \return the card number, -1 if no card associated with this client, or -ENOSYS if the
> + *         kernel does not support reporting this field
> + */

-1 is used as an out-of-range value when enumerating cards.  However,
I don't think this convention can be applied here, because the return
value is also used for error codes, and -1 would correspond to -EPERM.

Squashing all error codes into -1 is not a good idea, so I think the
value -1 should be converted into an appropriate error code, probably
-ENXIO.


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-05  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-05  1:05 [PATCH - alsa-lib 1/1] Introduce snd_seq_client_info_get_card_number, for getting the card number of a seq client on recent kernels Adam Goode
2015-06-05  6:50 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2015-06-10 10:35   ` Takashi Iwai
2015-06-10 17:09     ` Adam Goode

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