Re: [PATCH 1/7] printk: clean up return value

[Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>]

Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 08:36 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>>     
>>> We could fix this up, but it seems pointless.  Callers don't really care
>>> about the extra characters added by printk().  Instead, let's return the
>>> length of the original message as formatted (and possibly truncated)
>>> by vscnprintf().
>>>       
>> Or we could just change it to 'void'. As Joe Perches says, nobody really 
>> cares deeply enough for this to generally even matter.
>>     
>
> Here are changes to make printk/vprintk return void
> to the only uses I found:
>
>  arch/arm/mach-iop13xx/pci.c   |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-iop13xx/setup.c |    2 +-
>  drivers/char/mem.c            |    6 ++----
>  drivers/md/md.c               |    3 +--
>  drivers/md/raid5.c            |    3 ++-
>  drivers/net/e100.c            |    9 +++++----
>  include/linux/kernel.h        |   16 ++++++++--------
>  include/net/sctp/sctp.h       |    6 +++---
>  kernel/lockdep.c              |    4 ++--
>  kernel/printk.c               |   10 +++-------
>  net/sunrpc/svc.c              |    9 +++------
>  11 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>   

Ok, you beat me to it.

My second patch will depend on this.  Two questions -

- May I add it to my series with your Signed-off-by?
- May I split it up, so I can CC individual maintainers with the
revelant portions?

Thanks
Alan