Le 07/09/2010 21:00, Wolfgang Denk a écrit : > Dear Albert ARIBAUD, > > In message<4c867741.6060...@free.fr> you wrote: >> >> I'm a bit lost at the logic of this last sentence. If errors are not >> always represented as negative return values, and especially so in >> U-boot, then what is the rationale for supporting a request for >> specifically negative error return values, rather than positive, here? > > Even though ther eis lots of code that could need improvement, we > should not take such bad examples, but rather try to apply standard > techniques instead. > >> Not that I mind much -- as I said, ide_init() does not mind, and that's >> my reference -- and I'll happily put negative error codes in V3, but I >> like to understand why people want things. > > It's just a pretty common thing to do, and instead of doing the same > thing in many different ways it makes some sense to use a standard > way.
Understood. Amicalement, -- Albert. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
