Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:46:05 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/32] Add an ERR_CAST() macro to complement ERR_PTR and co. [try #2] |
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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..
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