From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <1486324173.22276.93.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10 275/319] ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value From: Joe Perches To: Willy Tarreau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, linux@roeck-us.net Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 11:49:33 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1486322541-8206-176-git-send-email-w@1wt.eu> References: <1486322541-8206-1-git-send-email-w@1wt.eu> <1486322541-8206-176-git-send-email-w@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 20:21 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > From: Joe Perches > > commit 7f032d6ef6154868a2a5d5f6b2c3f8587292196c upstream. > > The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused, > will eventually be converted to void. Is this necessary? It doesn't seem so. This one seems an unlikely candidate to backport as it effectively doesn't do anything but prepare for seq_printf return value removal. Is that removal going to be backported too or is this being patched to avoid some other backported patch's desire to be applied without offsets?