On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 08:45:15PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote: > } The substance of that reservation is that there's not much point doing > } it without also taking the time to correct the behavior, i.e., back > } out properly if something fails. And that requires attention, not just > } mechanical changes. > > Sure, but that's something that can be done over time, driver > by driver. The first step is the infrastructure support (changing > the return type, having autoconf respond intelligently, etc.). > The very first step of changing the return type is a purely mechanical > change.
Well, yes, but if you change the return type mechanically first then you end up with a thousand or two attach functions that *look* like they handle errors but actually don't. -- David A. Holland [email protected]
