linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib80211: Use ERR

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Message-ID: <3a907615d3c32c8af08a0c70b5bc008cfe910eda.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:54:17 +0200
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Rohit Chavan <roheetchavan@...il.com>, "David S. Miller"
	 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
	 <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib80211: Use ERR_CAST() to return

On Fri, 2024-09-06 at 17:14 +0530, Rohit Chavan wrote:
> Using ERR_CAST() is more reasonable and safer, When it is necessary
> to convert the type of an error pointer and return it.
> 

What? Why? What's the point?

johannes