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Re: [patch -next] ath9k: fix ath9k_hw_nvram_check_version()

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On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 20:00 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2015-12-19 at 13:59 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > There is a type bug so it always returns success.
> > 
> > How many false positives do you have to sift
> > through to find this sort of error?
> 
> The return type is thoughtfully bool, so it should be easy in this case.  
> The function has a return -EINVAL and a return true, so even without the 
> return type it would be locally apparent that there is an inconsistency.

True, -EINVAL is a non-bool constant, but
bool returns can be a variable int.

Dan, was the check any constant non-bool?

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