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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc5 2/2] gpiochip_reserve()
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:06:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080313160606.219166f5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803131552.22122.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:52:21 -0800
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

> +int __init __must_check gpiochip_reserve(int start, int ngpio)

I applaud the addition of __msut_check to a newly-added function of this
kind, but we usually only add the tag to the declaration, not to the
definition as well.

Not a lot of thought went into this, but we might as well be consistent.

--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c~gpiochip_reserve-fix
+++ a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int gpiochip_find_base(int ngpio)
  * to mark a range of gpios as unavailable for dynamic gpio number allocation,
  * for example because its driver support is not yet loaded.
  */
-int __init __must_check gpiochip_reserve(int start, int ngpio)
+int __init gpiochip_reserve(int start, int ngpio)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 	unsigned long flags;



  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-13 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-13 22:52 [patch 2.6.25-rc5 2/2] gpiochip_reserve() David Brownell
2008-03-13 23:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-03-14  1:33   ` Dave Jones

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