linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] staging: rtl8188eu: change return type of rtw_hal

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Date:   Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:08:02 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] staging: rtl8188eu: change return type of
 rtw_hal_xmit()

On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 15:57 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 22:28 +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
> > The function rtw_hal_xmit() returns true or false.
> > Change the return type from s32 to bool.
> [] 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c
> []
> > @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ bool rtl8188eu_xmitframe_complete(struct adapter *adapt,
> >   *	true	dump packet directly
> >   *	false	enqueue packet
> >   */
> > -s32 rtw_hal_xmit(struct adapter *adapt, struct xmit_frame *pxmitframe)
> > +bool rtw_hal_xmit(struct adapter *adapt, struct xmit_frame *pxmitframe)
> >  {
> >  	s32 res;
> 
> Does "s32 res" need changing to bool too?

Perhaps all the functions regardless of types
with returns of only _SUCCESS and _FAIL could be
converted to bool.