[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] The meaning of AVERROR_NOTSUPP

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Saturday 2010-04-24 11:41:30 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> On date Thursday 2010-04-22 17:42:52 -0700, Howard Chu encoded:
> > Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > >On date Thursday 2010-04-22 09:37:14 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> [...]
> > >>>  error.c |    1 -
> > >>>  error.h |    2 +-
> > >>>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>>a8e541223573b93b115ed0187b4a1e89423cc709  0003-Drop-AVERROR_NOTSUPP-at-the-next-major-bump-use-AVER.patch
> > >>>> From 2d584bc35ed9cb9e737181b0adf3edc6db6634f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > >>>From: Stefano Sabatini<stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it>
> > >>>Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 15:11:03 +0200
> > >>>Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Drop AVERROR_NOTSUPP at the next major bump, use AVERROR(ENOSYS)
> > >>>  instead which is semantically equivalent.
> > >>>
> > >>>---
> > >>>  libavutil/error.c |    1 -
> > >>>  libavutil/error.h |    2 +-
> > >>>  2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > >>if people prefer it that way iam ok with it
> > >
> > >So people please speak for or against this. AVERROR_NOTSUPP is
> > >currently never used and from the past discussion seems we have to use
> > >AVERROR(ENOSYS) instead, so it looks to me only a source of confusion.
> > 
> > Anything that cuts down on confusion must be a good thing...
> 
> I'll apply in three days, unless objections will raise against.

Applied.
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