Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:20:32 -0500 (EST) | From | Julia Lawall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] goldfish: Return proper error code |
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:53:29 +0530 > Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This change has been made with the goal that kernel functions should > > return something more descriptive than -1 on failure. > > > > Change the return value on valid_batchbuffer_addr() failure from -1 > > to -EINVAL. > > > > Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com> > > NAK. It's not user visible, it's a piece of code that has a pile of other > more important fixes needed first, and it's also as far as possible kept > aligned with the Android upstream. > > If it were some random otherwise unchanging bit of code then it might > just about make sense but in this case no - especially when you only > change one of the two returns of -1 !
The other has been chahged already in a patch in the staging tree. Maybe it's not in linux-next yet?
julia
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