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| H A D | usbtest.c | diff 6def755320a214ae149ad6bc69eb8c1d7887e678 Mon May 12 13:17:25 CDT 2008 Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> usbtest: comment on why this code "expects" negative and positive errnos
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:02:22AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2008, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> >
> > test_ctrl_queue expects (?) positive and negative errnos.
> > what is going on here?
>
> The sign is just a way to flag something:
>
> /* some faults are allowed, not required */
>
> The negative ones are required. Positive codes are optional,
> in the sense that, depending on how the peripheral happens
> to be implemented, they won't necessarily be triggered.
>
> For example, the test to fetch a device qualifier desriptor
> must succeed if the device is running at high speed. So that
> test is marked as negative. But when it's full speed, it
> could legitimately fail; marked as positive. And so on for
> other tests.
>
> Look at how the codes are *interpreted* to see it work.
Lets document it.
Based on comment from David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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