netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sparx5: fix return values to correctly use bool

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Date:   Fri, 2 Sep 2022 18:41:40 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Casper Andersson <casper.casan@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@...rochip.com>,
        Steen Hegelund <Steen.Hegelund@...rochip.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sparx5: fix return values to correctly use
 bool

On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Casper Andersson wrote:
> Function was declared to return bool, but used error return strategy (0
> for success, else error). Now correctly uses bool to indicate whether
> the entry was found or not.

I think it would be better to actually return an int. < 0 error, 0 =
not foumd > 1 found. You can then return ETIMEDOUT etc.

    Andrew