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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru•mvista.com>
To: Christian Krafft <krafft@de•ibm.com>
Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: [patch] powerpc: sysfs fix compiler warning
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:57:57 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <467C1BB5.2040600@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182537519.1554.14.camel@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com>

Hello.

Josh Boyer wrote:

>>From: Christian Krafft <krafft@de•ibm.com>

>>This patch fixes the following compiler warning:
>>arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c:385: warning: ignoring return value of
>>`sysfs_create_group',

>>Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de•ibm.com>

>>Index: linux-2.6.22-rc5/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
>>===================================================================
>>--- linux-2.6.22-rc5.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
>>+++ linux-2.6.22-rc5/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
>>@@ -380,16 +380,23 @@ int cpu_add_sysdev_attr_group(struct att
>> {
>> 	int cpu;
>> 	struct sys_device *sysdev;
>>+	int error;
>> 
>> 	mutex_lock(&cpu_mutex);
>> 
>> 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>> 		sysdev = get_cpu_sysdev(cpu);
>>-		sysfs_create_group(&sysdev->kobj, attrs);
>>+		error |= sysfs_create_group(&sysdev->kobj, attrs);
> 
> 
> Why are you or'ing the return value with whatever is in the
> uninitialized variable?

    To make it always fail, no doubt. ;-)
    ISO accumulation error, it makes more sense to start cleanup created 
groups right after the first creation failure -- although with the callers opf 
this function ignoring the result anyway, who cares. :-)

> josh

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-22 17:48 [patch] powerpc: sysfs fix compiler warning Christian Krafft
2007-06-22 18:38 ` Josh Boyer
2007-06-22 18:57   ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-06-22 19:04     ` Josh Boyer
2007-06-22 19:09       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-22 19:12         ` Josh Boyer
2007-06-23  9:46 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-25 17:07   ` Christian Krafft
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-29 14:50 Christian Krafft
2007-06-29 14:57 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-29 16:10   ` Christian Krafft

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