netdev - Re: ERR_PTR pattern in phylib

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Date:	Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:43:35 +0100 (BST)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, afleming@...escale.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ERR_PTR pattern in phylib

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, David Miller wrote:

> >  Arguably using a union here would make things cleaner and any reasonable 
> > ABI will place small unions used as arguments or return values in 
> > registers, but I'm not sure if the cost of the rewrite is worth the 
> 
> Well, sparc 32-bit's ABI for one is "not reasonable" and these return
> values will always get stack slots and passed back by reference.

 So that makes it two -- together with MIPS o32. ;)  Still used by 
everybody concerned as contraptions tend to stick. :/  That doesn't make 
it reasonable though.  Nor me to push the union approach -- that's an 
elegant approach that would probably give us less than take in return.

  Maciej
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