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DateThu, 28 Sep 2006 00:42:24 -0400
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Illustration of warning explosion silliness
Andrew Morton wrote:
>> You're ignoring the API issue at hand.  Let me say it again for the 
>> cheap seats:  "search"  You search a list, and stick a pointer somewhere 
>> when found.  No hardware touched.  No allocations.  Real world.  There 
>> is an example of usage in the kernel today.
> 
> If it's called in that fashion then the caller should still check the
> device_for_each_child() return value to find out if it actually got a
> match.


Or in the case of scsi_sysfs.c, it simply <does something>.

Oh well, whatever.  This thing introduces endless build noise we won't 
kill for years, making it much harder to spot much more serious stuff.

	Jeff


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