On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 10:56 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 10:30 +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:

> > Harman, when you send a patch series, as you did here (thanks and
> > good
> > job doing it so quickly :-) ), you want to include a 'cover
> > letter'. That
> > is an introductory email, often labelled (usually automatically by
> > git
> > tools) as patch 0 of the series itself. In it, you give a brief
> > explanation of what the series is meant at, and any kind of
> > information
> > you think the people reviewing the series should have, but that
> > wouldn't
> > fit in the various patches' changelogs, code comments, etc.
> 
> In particular in this case I would like to know whether all xl
> functions
> now use EXIT_SUCCESS/FAILURE or if there is still
> inconsistencies/work to
> be done.
> 
Exactly, Harman, these are the sort of things you'd include in a cover
letter for a series like this.

> I don't see any existing use of of EXIT_* in xl*.
> 
I sent a patch turning one function into doing so just yesterday. :-)

We (me, you and Wei) talked about it a while back (see the changelog of
that patch, it has the links):

 https://www.mail-archive.com/xen-devel@lists.xen.org/msg42850.html

And yes, I have it in my todo list to convert all of them. I'm fine
with committing to do that for 4.7.

This effort from Harman is just me using my todo list items as
proposals for preliminary contribution for the sake of applying to
Outreacy. :-)

Regards,
Dario
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