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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	tony@bakeyournoodle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:49:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210139347.21644.239.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18465.16592.41821.225568@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:40 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > > (rationale: users tend to not read their dmesg much, but
> WARN_ON()'s do
> > > get noticed)
> > 
> > OK by me, although if we're going to do much more of this it might
> be time
> > to add a WARN_ON which takes (fmt, args...).
> 
> It would make a lot more sense to put the printk and/or WARN_ON inside
> sysfs_create_bin_file rather than in every single caller.

Amen !

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-07  5:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-24  4:34 [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c Tony Breeds
2008-05-06 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 21:43   ` David Miller
2008-05-06 21:56     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  4:00       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  4:12         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  4:15           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  4:20             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  4:37               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07  4:23             ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  4:26               ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  4:41                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  4:37               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  5:40           ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-07  5:49             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-05-07  0:54     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07  1:20       ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  4:33         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07  8:23           ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-07 21:43             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-08  7:34               ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-08  7:49                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-08  8:36                   ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-08 22:03                     ` Greg KH
2008-05-08 23:06                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-08 23:50                       ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-09  0:02                         ` Harvey Harrison
2008-05-09  5:32                           ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-09  5:33                           ` Cornelia Huck

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