[PATCH 00/24] ath6kl cleaned up driver
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Jul 13 09:41:08 UTC 2011
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 12:34 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:28:44AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 12:22 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > > warn: returning -1 instead of -ENOMEM is sloppy
> >
> > out of curiosity -- why does it say "instead of -ENOMEM"? -1 really gets
> > interpreted as "-EPERM" (since EPERM == 1)
>
> It's for an allocation failure. The code returns -1 (-EPERM) but it
> should be returning -ENOMEM.
Ah, so it looks at the context of it, cool.
johannes
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