Re: ERR_PTR and PTR_ERR

[Julia Lawall]

On Sun, 16 May 2010, Julia Lawall wrote:

> I see a number of occurrences of code like the following:
> 
>  	if (IS_ERR(alg))
> 		return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(alg));
> 
> Is there any reason why the second line couldn't just be return alg?

Hmm, never mind.  It seems to address a type problem.

julia
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