Re: [PATCH] tty/tty_io.c: fix compilation warning

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

On 01/14/2011 08:18 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> This patch fixes following compilation warning:
> tty/tty_io.c:3309: warning: ignoring return value of 'device_create_file',
> declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/tty_io.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> index 464d09d..b558f03 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> @@ -3291,6 +3291,8 @@ void console_sysfs_notify(void)
>   */
>  int __init tty_init(void)
>  {
> +	int ret = 0;
> +
>  	cdev_init(&tty_cdev, &tty_fops);
>  	if (cdev_add(&tty_cdev, MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 0), 1) ||
>  	    register_chrdev_region(MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 0), 1, "/dev/tty") < 0)
> @@ -3306,11 +3308,11 @@ int __init tty_init(void)
>  	if (IS_ERR(consdev))
>  		consdev = NULL;
>  	else
> -		device_create_file(consdev, &dev_attr_active);
> +		ret = device_create_file(consdev, &dev_attr_active);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_VT
>  	vty_init(&console_fops);
>  #endif
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;

NACK

There is no failpath handling. And I think Kay has a patch for that
already where he ignores the retval.

regards,
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js