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Date:   Sat, 21 May 2022 21:56:51 +0100
From:   Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
To:     Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Cc:     Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>,
        Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: r8188eu: add check for kzalloc
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On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 11:26:55PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On 5/21/22 18:50, Martin Kaiser wrote:
> > 
> > >  	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
> > > @@ -1474,7 +1479,7 @@ s32 rtw_xmit_classifier(struct adapter *padapter, struct xmit_frame *pxmitframe)
> > 
> > 
> > res is still 0 here - but the caller of _rtw_init_xmit_priv compares
> > this return value with _SUCCESS (1) or _FAIL (0) and interprets it as
> > _FAIL.
> > 
> 
> I think, it's time to make
> 
> s/_SUCCESS/0/
> s/_FAIL/-1
> 
> since developers from outside of staging are confused.
> The main problem will be with functions that return an int (or s32).
> 
> Will take a look.
> 
> 
> 
> With regards,
> Pavel Skripkin

Hi Pavel,

I agree with you totally - we should change these semantics to reflect
how the rest of the kernel generally does things. That said, that is a
bigger patch set and I noticed the driver was broken before I read this
thread, so I've submitted a patch already just to fix the breakage for
now.

Changing these semantics is a bigger patch/patchset and I wanted to get
this out in the meantime - if you are looking at doing this conversion I
will by all means leave that alone as no desire to tread on anyones
toes :-)

Regards,
Phil