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staging: gpib: use int type to store negative error codes

The "ret" variable is used to store the return from bb_write() returns
either zero on success or negative error codes on failure. Storing the
error codes in size_t which is an unsigned long, doesn't cause an issue
at runtime but it's ugly as pants. Change "ret" from size_t to int
type. No effect on runtime.

Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250826123208.300145-1-rongqianfeng@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Qianfeng Rong and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drivers/staging/gpib/gpio/gpib_bitbang.c
··· 726 726 static int bb_command(struct gpib_board *board, u8 *buffer, 727 727 size_t length, size_t *bytes_written) 728 728 { 729 - size_t ret; 729 + int ret; 730 730 struct bb_priv *priv = board->private_data; 731 731 int i; 732 732