From: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clocksource: Make clocksource register functions void
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:04:40 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E0CD18.5080104@prisktech.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUcKb8m71Z7dUo86MQ_KZgPujxsduUUt3Mz8Oke+DLSVw@mail.gmail.com>
On 23/01/14 20:58, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz> wrote:
>>> -static inline int clocksource_register_hz(struct clocksource *cs, u32
>>> hz)
>>> +static inline void clocksource_register_hz(struct clocksource *cs, u32
>>> hz)
>>> {
>>> return __clocksource_register_scale(cs, 1, hz);
>>> }
>>
>> This doesn't make sense - you are still returning a value on a function
>> declared void, and the return is now from a function that doesn't return
>> anything either ?!?!
>> Doesn't this throw a compile-time warning??
> No, passing on void in functions returning void doesn't cause compiler
> warnings.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
Doesn't seem right to me (even if there is no warning) but that's
probably because I used to program in Pascal where functions with no
return were 'procedures' :)
Whether it needs to be changed or not:
For the vt8500 part -
Acked-by: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>
Regards
Tony Prisk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-23 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-23 7:12 [PATCH 2/2] clocksource: Make clocksource register functions void Yijing Wang
2014-01-23 7:40 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2014-01-23 7:45 ` Tony Prisk
2014-01-23 7:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-01-23 8:04 ` Tony Prisk [this message]
2014-01-23 8:17 ` Yijing Wang
2014-01-23 11:40 ` David Laight
2014-02-05 20:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-10 1:13 ` Yijing Wang
2014-01-23 8:40 ` Daniel Lezcano
[not found] ` <52E0D575.5050702-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-23 9:01 ` Yijing Wang
2014-02-05 20:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
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