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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Annotate gpio-configuration with __must_check
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 12:27:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110104202718.GA31444@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294159868-4989-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de>

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 05:51:06PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Here is a small series generating a lot of warnings, especially in board
> bringup-files. Still, I think it is worthwhile to be strict about checking
> return values of gpio-configuration-functions. My suggestion to keep the noise
> a bit lower is to put it into linux-next for one cycle and then merge it for
> 2.6.39? That should give people some time to fix the issues in time. Looking
> forward to comments.

It's ok to add this type of thing, but please, go through and fix the
warnings at the same time.  Otherwise it's a bit rude to force others to
fix their code for something that you did.

Care to also send those patches along?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-04 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-04 16:51 [PATCH 0/2] Annotate gpio-configuration with __must_check Wolfram Sang
2011-01-04 16:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: annotate gpio-intialization " Wolfram Sang
2011-01-04 16:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] gpiolib: add missing functions to generic fallback Wolfram Sang
2011-01-04 20:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-01-04 21:29   ` [PATCH 0/2] Annotate gpio-configuration with __must_check Wolfram Sang
2011-01-04 21:34     ` Greg KH
2011-01-04 23:05       ` Wolfram Sang
2011-01-04 23:44         ` Greg KH
2011-01-05 11:18           ` Mark Brown
2011-01-05 18:57           ` Wolfram Sang

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