linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] input: for best practices, return -ENOMEM instead of -1 when returning on mem allocation errors

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Message-ID: <1285275390.1999.0.camel@cowboy>
Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:56:30 -0400
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: for best practices, return -ENOMEM instead of
 -1 when returning on mem allocation errors

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 08:44 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > input: for best practices, return -ENOMEM instead of -1 when returning on mem allocation errors.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
> 
> Applied, thank you Davidlohr.
> 
> FWIW there are more code in drivers/input/serio and drivers/input/mouse/
> that return -1 instead of a proper error codes.
> 
Yes, I'll be preparing a patch shortly for those.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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