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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] radeonfb: check return value of sysfs_create_bin_file
Il Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:54:55PM +0200, Andreas Schwab ha scritto: 
> Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Il Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:07:26AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto:
> >> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 01:53 +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> >> > sysfs_create_bin_file() is marked as warn_unused_result but we don't
> >> > actually check the return value.
> >> > Error is not fatal, the driver can operate fine without the files so
> >> > just print a notice on failure.
> >>
> >> I find this whole business of must check return value for sysfs files to
> >> be gratuitous bloat. There are many cases (like this one) where we don't
> >> really care and a printk will just increase the kernel size for no good
> >> reason.
> >>
> >> Maybe we can have a macro we can use to silence the warning when we
> >> don't care about the result ? Can gcc do that ?
> >
> > Ugly macro:
> >
> > #define UNCHECKED(func) do { if (func) {} } while(0)
>
> Better, but only marginally:
>
> #define UNCHECKED(func) (void)(func)

Nope, I tried[1] before sending the mail ;) warn_unused_result requires
that you _use_ the result.

Luca
[1] kronos:~$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061007 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-16)
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