From: linas@austin•ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman•id.au>
Cc: akpm@osdl•org, Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: HVCS char driver janitoring: fix compile warnings
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:39:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061116203946.GA23600@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163635387.8805.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:03:07AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:26 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> >
> > This is a non-urgent patch.
> >
> > I can't figure out who the upstream maintainer for char drivers
> > is supposed to be. Can this patch be applied?
> >
> > --linas
> >
> > This patch removes an pair of irritating compiler warnings:
> >
> > drivers/char/hvcs.c:1605: warning: ignoring return value of
> > sysfs_create_group declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > drivers/char/hvcs.c:1639: warning: ignoring return value of
> > driver_create_file declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> >
> > Doing this required moving a big block of code from the bottom
> > of the file to the top, so as to avoid the need for (irritating)
> > forward declarations.
>
> Can you do the move and the fix as two patches? It's very hard to review
> in its current form.
Sorry, coming shortly. -- linas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-16 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-15 21:26 [PATCH]: HVCS char driver janitoring: fix compile warnings Linas Vepstas
2006-11-16 0:03 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-11-16 20:39 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2006-11-16 22:35 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-11-17 0:55 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-11-17 1:11 ` Andrew Morton
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