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From: "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
	Linux and Kernel Video <video4linux-list@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Subject: Re: bttv-driver.c:3964: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:30:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153193418.25651@shark.he.net> (raw)



> Michael Krufky wrote:
> > Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> >> On 7/17/06, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> wrote:
> >>> Hmmm... This was caused by the "Check all __must_check warnings in
> >>> bttv." patch from Randy Dunlap (cc's from original thread added)
> >>>
> >>> I am aware that this was done for various reasons of sanity checking,
> >>> however, we cannot check the return value of a void ;-)
> >> For the sanity checking, I don't think video_device_create_file()
> >> should be a void function. It probably should return
> >> class_device_create_file()'s return value, no? As it can fail...
> >>
> > 
> > You are correct... I was merely pointing out the error, but now I see it
> > runs deeper than I had thought.  I will fix both
> > video_device_create_file and video_device_remove_file to return the
> > class_device_foo return values, then I'll push it over to Mauro.
> 
> I was in a rush when I wrote that, and I wasn't thinking. 
> video_device_remove_file stays as a void.
> 
> Anyway, here is the fix.  This is already in my tree ( 
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/v4l-dvb ) but split into separate patches.

Hi,
Thanks for taking care of this.
I'll look over it and see what I missed.  Right now I have
terrible wireless connections/problems.  Sorry about the delay.

---
~Randy


             reply	other threads:[~2006-07-18  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-18  3:30 Randy Dunlap [this message]
     [not found] <20060717124505.GD7281@neu.nirvana>
2006-07-17 19:53 ` bttv-driver.c:3964: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be Michael Krufky
2006-07-17 20:55   ` Nish Aravamudan
2006-07-17 21:30     ` Michael Krufky
2006-07-18  3:03       ` Michael Krufky

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