On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:02 +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> Quoting Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:33 +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> > > Quoting Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden>:
> > >
> > > > Lee A. Azzarello wrote:
> > > > > ----- Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > > > > cannot submit datapipe for urb 4, err = -28
> > > >
> > > > 28 = ENOSPC (not enough bandwidth)
> > >
> > > Why doesn't jack tell the user this, why did Clemens need to post on
> > LAU to ask?
> >
> > These are standard, well known error codes,
> > see /usr/include/linux/errno.h
>
> So, instead of interpreting them to users the software should say: "learn C
> headers and read errno.h?". Gah.
>
> Good software tells the users what's really wrong and directs the user in
> how to fix the issue. This leads to happier users and less repeated "why
> doesn't this work" questions on mailing lists, irc, personal email, etc.
We don't KNOW what's wrong beyond "not enough bandwidth".
Lee
Received on Sat Mar 4 00:15:05 2006
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