Re: [PATCH 2/2] clocksource: Make clocksource register functions void

[Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>]

On 2014/1/23 16:04, Tony Prisk wrote:
> 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>

Thanks!

> 
> Regards
> Tony Prisk
> 
> 
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Thanks!
Yijing