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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Illustration of warning explosion silliness
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:42:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <451B52B0.1090801@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060927213628.ef12b1ed.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
>> You're ignoring the API issue at hand.  Let me say it again for the 
>> cheap seats:  "search"  You search a list, and stick a pointer somewhere 
>> when found.  No hardware touched.  No allocations.  Real world.  There 
>> is an example of usage in the kernel today.
> 
> If it's called in that fashion then the caller should still check the
> device_for_each_child() return value to find out if it actually got a
> match.


Or in the case of scsi_sysfs.c, it simply <does something>.

Oh well, whatever.  This thing introduces endless build noise we won't 
kill for years, making it much harder to spot much more serious stuff.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-28  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-28  0:58 [PATCH] Illustration of warning explosion silliness Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28  1:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28  1:48   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28  3:34     ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28  4:19       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28  4:36         ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28  4:42           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-09-28  4:47             ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28  4:44           ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28  4:54             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28  5:04               ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 23:18       ` Jeff Garzik

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