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On 2018년 11월 14일 23:04, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 1:17 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 1:05 PM Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> Changing NULL to -ENODEV is a trading bad to worse.
> 
>> P.S. I still disagree with your arguments in relation to de facto use of an API.
> 
> I spoke to colleagues of mine and they are agree that semantically
> -EPROBE_DEFER is a wrong error code from API that matches against some
> list.
> On the other hand, they agree with me that changing NULL to -ENODEV is
> a trading bad to worse.
> 
> So, I withdraw mine complaints against API.
> 

OK. Thanks.

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Chanwoo Choi
Samsung Electronics