Re: [PATCH 00/24] ath6kl cleaned up driver

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:28:44AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 12:22 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > warn: returning -1 instead of -ENOMEM is sloppy
> 
> out of curiosity -- why does it say "instead of -ENOMEM"? -1 really gets
> interpreted as "-EPERM" (since EPERM == 1)

It's for an allocation failure.  The code returns -1 (-EPERM) but it
should be returning -ENOMEM.

regards,
dan carpenter
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