Re: [PATCH] Illustration of warning explosion silliness

Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28T04:42:38Z

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