Re: [alsa-cvslog] CVS: alsa-kernel/usb usbaudio.c,1.172,1.173

[Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:58 -0800, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > +static const char *usb_error_string(int err)
> > +{
> > +	switch (err) {
> > +	case -ENODEV:
> > +		return "no device";
> > +	case -ENOENT:
> > +		return "endpoint not enabled";
> > +	case -EPIPE:
> > +		return "endpoint stalled";
> > +	case -ENOSPC:
> > +		return "not enough bandwidth";
> > +	case -ESHUTDOWN:
> > +		return "device disabled";
> > +	case -EHOSTUNREACH:
> > +		return "device suspended";
> > +	case -EINVAL:
> > +	case -EAGAIN:
> > +	case -EFBIG:
> > +	case -EMSGSIZE:
> > +		return "internal error";
> > +	default:
> > +		return "unknown error";
> > +	}
> > +}
> 
> Shouldn't a generic facility be created for this?

Yes, there's nothing audio specific in this function (except for my
decision which codes to lump together as "internal error").

> After all these are standard error codes and it seem like other parts
> of the kernel might want to do user friendly error reporting.

But it seems none of those parts actually does.  ;-)


Clemens
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