Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 9 May 2008 07:33:48 +0200 | | From | Cornelia Huck <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c | |
On Thu, 08 May 2008 17:02:44 -0700,
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 09:50 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > I think the best solution is to make a new sysfs_maybe_create_file()
> > which isn't marked must_check, and then move suitable callers (such as
> > radeonfb) over to that. That will make it obvious in the callers that
> > the file creation isn't guaranteed.
Either that...
>
> Or just a a flag parameter to the existing one that says whether failure
> is allowed or not. In a case that fails, a WARN_ON can be printed from
> the common create_file rather than putting printks all over the kernel.
...or that. But the core should still warn about duplicate files in all
cases, since that indicates a bug. (And that will catch the problems we
found before; IIRC a core warning didn't exist back then.)
>
> This would also document which files are necessary vs. optional.
Shouldn't that rather go into Documentation/ABI/, so that people can
easily find out what they may rely on?
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