From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@vivo.com>
Cc: Dave Penkler <dpenkler@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Michael Rubin <matchstick@neverthere.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: gpib: use int type to store negative error codes
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:36:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aK2qRRoXViUS-0HL@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250826123208.300145-1-rongqianfeng@vivo.com>
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 08:32:01PM +0800, Qianfeng Rong wrote:
> The "ret" variable is used to store the return from bb_write() returns
> either zero on success or negative error codes on failure. Storing the
> error codes in size_t which is an unsigned long, doesn't cause an issue
> at runtime but it's ugly as pants. Change "ret" from size_t to int
> type. No effect on runtime.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@vivo.com>
> ---
> v2: Modified commit message as suggested by Dan.
Awesome. Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
regards,
dan carpenter
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2025-08-26 12:32 [PATCH v2] staging: gpib: use int type to store negative error codes Qianfeng Rong
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