When to burn those bridges
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Fri Sep 12 08:17:09 PDT 2003
> yea, but that's a bit of a pathological case. first, rl/re attach to
> a specific driver, and not override. So maybe we could mandate that
> drivers that are generic and return negative return values should be
> constrained to only look at the plug and play info and are not allowed
> to look at resources. owi/wi is the only pair that does this
> evilness.
Magic return values are evil; better to use longer-lasting state like flags
associated with the driver.
Sam
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