From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964770AbXCSPNU (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:13:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965862AbXCSPNT (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:13:19 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:56579 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964770AbXCSPNS (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:13:18 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Jesper Juhl Subject: Re: [PATCH][5/5][resend] floppy.c: Fix device_create_file() warning Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:13:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Trent Waddington , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Alan Cox References: <200703191611.13849.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200703191611.13849.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703191613.04223.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > - device_create_file(&floppy_device[drive].dev,&dev_attr_cmos); > + err = device_create_file(&floppy_device[drive].dev, &dev_attr_cmos); > + if (err) > + printk(KERN_WARNING "Unable to create sysfs attribute " > + "file for floppy device: %s\n", > + floppy_device[drive].name); That change looks pretty useless. Either the error should be handled correctly by bailing out or the warn_unused_results should be dropped. -Andi