From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
tony@bakeyournoodle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 17:49:44 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210232984.1421.47.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080508093421.31cd735b@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:34 +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that failing the initialization was usually
> the right thing to do, since we end up with an un-configurable,
> un-usable device. But that may be coloured by my experience with s390
> devices, where we rely on sysfs attributes extensively. If indeed most
> sysfs files are non-vital, removing the __must_check and relying on a
> scary warning in the core may be fine. (OTOH, adding checks to the
> core
> has helped us to find some lurking bugs.)
The driver can still fail initialization if it wants... I'm just
objecting to the __must_check.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-24 4:34 [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c Tony Breeds
2008-05-06 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 21:43 ` David Miller
2008-05-06 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 4:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 4:12 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 4:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 4:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 4:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07 4:23 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 4:26 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 4:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 4:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 5:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-07 5:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07 0:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07 1:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 4:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07 8:23 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-07 21:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-08 7:34 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-08 7:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-05-08 8:36 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-08 22:03 ` Greg KH
2008-05-08 23:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-08 23:50 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-09 0:02 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-05-09 5:32 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-09 5:33 ` Cornelia Huck
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