From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758310AbYEHXHu (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 19:07:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750872AbYEHXHl (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 19:07:41 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:60845 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751255AbYEHXHk (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 19:07:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Greg KH Cc: Cornelia Huck , Andrew Morton , David Miller , tony@bakeyournoodle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080508220348.GD7705@kroah.com> References: <20080506143936.6357e578.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080506.144301.233784820.davem@davemloft.net> <1210121683.21644.194.camel@pasglop> <20080506182006.4b4a3968.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1210134804.21644.202.camel@pasglop> <20080507102310.57b4ccfb@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1210196621.1421.5.camel@pasglop> <20080508093421.31cd735b@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1210232984.1421.47.camel@pasglop> <20080508103621.69bc47cf@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080508220348.GD7705@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 09:06:37 +1000 Message-Id: <1210287997.1421.89.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 15:03 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Why? You point out it found some real bugs, should we just assume > that > no new bugs of this same problem will happen again in the future? Making sure it warns/printk's on error would probably find the same bugs... Ben.