Le 07/09/2010 21:00, Wolfgang Denk a écrit :
Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
In message4C867741.6060906@free.fr you wrote:
I'm a bit lost at the logic of this last sentence. If errors are not always represented as negative return values, and especially so in U-boot, then what is the rationale for supporting a request for specifically negative error return values, rather than positive, here?
Even though ther eis lots of code that could need improvement, we should not take such bad examples, but rather try to apply standard techniques instead.
Not that I mind much -- as I said, ide_init() does not mind, and that's my reference -- and I'll happily put negative error codes in V3, but I like to understand why people want things.
It's just a pretty common thing to do, and instead of doing the same thing in many different ways it makes some sense to use a standard way.
Understood.
Amicalement,