[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] power: fix argument cannot be negative

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Mon May 16 14:59:34 CEST 2016


2016-05-16 14:39 GMT+02:00 Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>:
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
>> The next statement is probably a useless copy paste of the coverity
>> report.
>>
>> > In send_msg: Negative value used as argument to a function expecting a
>> > positive value (for example, size of buffer or allocation)
>
> A question on this point. Is it just that the Coverity message is useless
> in this case or in general? For other error/warning fixes we include the
> message in the commit.

Sometimes, the coverity message is accurate, sometimes it s better to reword it.
Anyway, having 2 sentences saying the same thing is disturbing.


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