> I like the code as is. Do you really prefer to ignore important return values in the discussed function? > Such error checks and magic numbers are messy. Is it safer to detect exceptional situations as early as possible here? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html