On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:57:09 +1030 Rusty Russell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Alexandru Gheorghiu <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Used PTR_RET function instead of IS_ERR and PTR_ERR.
> > Patch found using coccinelle.
> 
> WTF is PTR_RET?  PTR_RET doesn't return anything.  Why is it called
> that?  It doesn't even make sense.
> 
> ZERO_OR_PTR_ERR() maybe.
> 
> But what problem are we solving?  Insufficient churn in the tree?  Code
> being too readable?  This isn't some hard-to-get right corner case, or a
> missed optimization.
> 
> Andrew, what am I missing here?

It seemed like a good idea at the time.  Merged it two years ago and
have since been keenly awaiting an opportunity to use it.

It seems that people _have_ been using it, but mainly netfilter people
and we know they're all crazy ;)

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