On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:02 +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote: > Quoting Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:33 +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote: > > > Quoting Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > > > Lee A. Azzarello wrote: > > > > > ----- Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > cannot submit datapipe for urb 4, err = -28 > > > > > > > > 28 = ENOSPC (not enough bandwidth) > > > > > > Why doesn't jack tell the user this, why did Clemens need to post on > > LAU to ask? > > > > These are standard, well known error codes, > > see /usr/include/linux/errno.h > > So, instead of interpreting them to users the software should say: "learn C > headers and read errno.h?". Gah. > > Good software tells the users what's really wrong and directs the user in > how to fix the issue. This leads to happier users and less repeated "why > doesn't this work" questions on mailing lists, irc, personal email, etc. We don't KNOW what's wrong beyond "not enough bandwidth". Lee
