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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] lib/string: introduce match_string() helper
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:19:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160108131908.GB17997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452258558-119552-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:09:09PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> There are users of a simple string matching in the array. Let's do a common
> helper for that.
 
What's the reason for making it return -ENODATA when no match is found?
That one of the callers wants to return that as error in such case?
At least one other is returning -EINVAL in the same situation...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-08 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-08 13:09 [PATCH v3 0/9] lib/string: introduce match_string() helper Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] " Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] device property: convert to use " Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 23:33   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-01-28 12:40     ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] pinctrl: " Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] drm/edid: " Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] power: charger_manager: " Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] power: ab8500: " Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] ata: hpt366: " Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] ide: " Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] usb: common: " Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-08 13:19 ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-01-08 14:13   ` [PATCH v3 0/9] lib/string: introduce " Andy Shevchenko

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