linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB-FHCI: Use a signed return type for fhci_create

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Message-ID: <5675C426.7040602@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:	Sat, 19 Dec 2015 21:55:02 +0100
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB-FHCI: Use a signed return type for fhci_create_ep()

> Just make it an int.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Will any more software developers prefer this data type
at some source code places?


> The caller also casts it to u32...

Do you want to get rid of similar casts in affected functions?

Regards,
Markus
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