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SubjectRe: aic7xxx funcs without return values
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> They don't return a value because doing so is meaningless.  You aren't
> going to get past the panic. The compiler should know that assuming
> panic is properly tagged as a function that cannot return.
>
> You may also want to check up on your C since having a break after
> a return is, well, kinda silly. In all the usage of this inline, the
> width is constant, so gcc should completely optimize away the switch
> and surrounding code.

Yep.

The bigger problem with that driver for pedants is that it contains globals with
names like 'hard_error' which are asking for clashes . Bizarrely all
the static functions are carefully named ahc_* and the globals are called
things like 'restart_squencer'

The EISA probe code is also horrible, but thats not Justin's fault. Someone
needs to put some eisa_* bus functions into the kernel for that and some
of the other drivers.



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