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

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Date:	Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:04:14 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
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()

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 09:55:02PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Just make it an int.
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion.
> 
> Will any more software developers prefer this data type
> at some source code places?
> 

Use s32 if the hardware spec specifies that you must.  Otherwise prefer
ordinary types.

> 
> > The caller also casts it to u32...
> 
> Do you want to get rid of similar casts in affected functions?

If you want, that would be great.  I just enjoy complaining generally,
though.  :P

regards,
dan carpenter

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