Re: return codes

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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:03:07PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On investigating call sites for 'return' in drivers/staging/ks7010/
> it can be seen that a number of functions us *custom* (positive)
> integers to indicate error. Notwithstanding that they are positive, is
> this ok for code in the kernel (i.e in order to get out of staging
> does this need to be changed)? Functions in question have internal linkage
> and the error code is used for debug messages.
> 
> Should these be
> 
> A) left alone
> B) made negative
> C) changed to use standard error codes (i.e -ENOMEM etc)

C) please

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