Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:12:53 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: change return values in mac_pton() function | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:09:03 +0300
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> wrote: >> The original commit adding this function noted a diverge from usual >> 0=success/-E=fail, but no motivation for it. > > I thought it was obvious, but indeed wasn't explicitely > mentioned in changelog. But see inet_pton(3).
Agreed it's better for mac_pton() to be consistent with existing, similar, interfaces like inet_pton.
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