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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/32] Add an ERR_CAST() macro to complement ERR_PTR and co. [try #2]
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:46:05 +0100
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:56:07PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Add an ERR_CAST() macro to complement ERR_PTR and co. for the purposes of
> casting an error entyped as one pointer type to an error of another pointer
> type whilst making it explicit as to what is going on.
> 
> This provides a replacement for the ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) construct.

I don't like this one very much, I'd rather take the variant Linus
outline in his last post on that topic..