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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fadvise: avoid EINVAL if user input is valid
Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> wrote:
> On 02/25/2012 02:27 AM, Eric Wong wrote:
> > + force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file, start_index, nrpages);
> > break;
>
> This whole patch makes sense to me.
> The above chunk might cause confusion in future,
> if people wonder for a moment why the return is ignored.
> Should you use cast with (void) like this to be explicit?
>
> (void) force_page_cache_readahead(...);

I considered this, too[1]. However I checked for existing usages of
force_page_cache_readahead() noticed they just ignore the return value
like I did in my patch, so I followed existing convention for this
function. I didn't find any suggestion in Documentation/CodingStyle
for this.

Thanks for looking at this.

[1] - it's what I normally do in my own projects.
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