Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v4 5/6] core: add support for compress_offload

On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 09:44 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:

You can use WARN() or snd_BUG_ON().

But WARN or snd_BUG_ON will continue execution and.... So better log it and return error, right?

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Only question is in these scenarios this is core corruption so what would be the apt error code to use?

Well, there is no standard definition. Just use a sensible errno that will abort the user-space appropriately (i.e. not like EPIPE). Even -EFAULT would be OK, I think.

I like EFAULT