On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Simon Horman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 11:09:52AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 14:47:22 +0300 Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > It's a pity that deliberately doing a "return ret;" when ret is zero is so > > > common. Someone explained to me that it was "done deliberately to express that > > > we were propagating the success from frob_whatever()". No no no! > > > > FWIW I pitched to Linus that we should have a err_t of some sort for > > int variables which must never be returned with value of 0. > > He wasn't impressed, but I still think it would be useful :) > > FWIIW, I think something like that would be quite nice. Likewise. julia
