Re: [PATCH] rio: warn_unused_result warnings fix

[Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>]

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On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 18:15 +0800, Li Yang wrote:
> warning: ignoring return value of 'device_add', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> warning: ignoring return value of 'sysfs_create_bin_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c  |    5 ++++-
>  drivers/rapidio/rio-sysfs.c |    6 ++++--
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c b/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c
> index 74d0bfa..9309e24 100644
> --- a/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c
> +++ b/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c
> @@ -265,7 +265,10 @@ static void rio_route_set_ops(struct rio_dev *rdev)
>   */
>  static void __devinit rio_add_device(struct rio_dev *rdev)
>  {
> -	device_add(&rdev->dev);
> +	int err;
> +
> +	err = device_add(&rdev->dev);
> +	WARN_ON(err);
>  
>  	spin_lock(&rio_global_list_lock);
>  	list_add_tail(&rdev->global_list, &rio_devices);

Is that really useful? Why not return the error to rio_setup_device()
which can tell it's caller.

cheers

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