On 8 April 2015 at 13:10, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]> wrote:

> These are booleans.  However we decided that ODP considers any non-zero
> value to be "true", hence the doc change. The linux-generic implementation
> always returns 1 for true and since 1 is a non-zero value that's completely
> conforming.
>

Agree - it is the optional  addition info aspect of !0 I thought might be
an issue, if two states are returned I have no qualms about portability


>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Mike Holmes <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 8 April 2015 at 12:45, Zoltan Kiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Now it looks like:
>>>
>>>  * @retval 1 packet has errors
>>>  * @retval 0 packet has no errors
>>>
>>> I found it is better for debugging if it actually returns some error
>>> code. How about changing it to:
>>>
>>>  * @retval 0 packet has no errors
>>>  * @retval !0 packet has errors, implementation can optionally return an
>>> error code
>>>
>>
>> This looks like it was intended to be a boolean test so extra info might
>> be misleading, and to be a standard  people can rely on optional is never a
>> good thing.
>>
>> Is there a minimum set of errors this api can be said will return an
>> error code for ? If there is no standard set at all I question having
>> anything optional becasue the api will have no portability at all.
>>
>> Taken from the hdr in question it looks like it would be this list
>>
>> struct {
>> /* Bitfield flags for each detected error */
>> uint32_t app_error:1; /**< Error bit for application use */
>> uint32_t frame_len:1; /**< Frame length error */
>> uint32_t snap_len:1;  /**< Snap length error */
>> uint32_t l2_chksum:1; /**< L2 checksum error, checks TBD */
>> uint32_t ip_err:1;    /**< IP error,  checks TBD */
>> uint32_t tcp_err:1;   /**< TCP error, checks TBD */
>> uint32_t udp_err:1;   /**< UDP error, checks TBD */
>> };
>> } error_flags_t;
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
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