linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add error check to hex2bin().

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:18:31 +0300
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add error check to hex2bin().

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> What about making it return the number of unprocessed bytes left instead?
> Then the caller knows where the problem lies. And zero would mean success.
If I remember correctly it used to be src as return value in some
version of that patch. I don't know the details of that interim
solution. My current opinion is to return boolean and make an
additional parameter to return src value. However, it could make this
simple function fat.
P.S. Take into account that the user of it is only one so far, I would
like to hear a Mimi's opinion.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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