From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] ALSA: pcsp: Use common error handling code in snd_card_pcsp_probe()
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:49:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5h378j8xos.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <139363f6-e059-defb-357e-f18645ba9768@users.sourceforge.net>
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:36:35 +0200,
SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>
> >> I got the impression that the functions which are called at the updated places
> >> by the function “snd_card_pcsp_probe” indicate a successful execution
> >> only by zero so far.
> >
> > You have the impression, great.
>
> This aspect is also a general programming interface issue for some functions.
>
>
> > And what's the reason to drop the negative check?
>
> * I find it a bit safer when the error predicate is “return value != 0”.
Can't agree. And I have no interest to continue bike-shedding,
sorry. You can't convince me regarding this.
Takashi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-22 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-22 12:10 [PATCH] ALSA: pcsp: Use common error handling code in snd_card_pcsp_probe() SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 12:16 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-22 12:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 12:47 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 12:55 ` [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 13:15 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 14:07 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 14:36 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 14:49 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2017-08-22 15:03 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 15:07 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 15:47 ` [PATCH v3] " SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 15:59 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 14:00 ` [PATCH v2] " SF Markus Elfring
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