* callbacks are called. Similarly, if a convert function produced output, all
* registerd output callbacks get called.
*
- * \return The sum of output bytes produced by the convert functions on
- * success, negative return value on errors (the return value is stored in
- * t->ret).
+ * On errors a (negative) error code is stored in t->error.
*
* \sa filter_node, filter#convert, filter_callback
*/