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SubjectRe: Complaint about return code convention in queue_work() etc.
Alan Stern wrote:
> I'd like to lodge a bitter complaint about the return codes used by
> queue_work() and related functions:
>
> Why do the damn things return 0 for error and 1 for success???
> Why don't they use negative error codes for failure, like
> everything else in the kernel?!!

It's a standard programming idiom: return false (0) for failure, true
(non-zero) for success. Boolean.

Certainly the kernel often uses the -errno convention, but it's not a rule.

Jeff



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