Re: [lwip-users] Better handling of netif init failures ?

[Jani Monoses]

Return codes and error handling in general are pretty inconsistent
in lwIP so improvements are welcome.

> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering why the netif init callback, called by netif_add,
> is returning void. It prevents some friendlier handling than
> (e.g.) perror/exit in the init function. Is it planned that, someday,
> init could return an error code, and netif_add could then return NULL ?
> What would be the odds of a patch for this to be accepted ?
> 
> --
> David
> 
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